We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the … students' drop out decisions as well as later labor market outcomes. Overall, we find that a one standard deviation increase in … for lower ability students. …

four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and …, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college …

four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and …, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college …

, many students fail to complete their degrees, and few invest in majors with the highest earnings potential such as those in … STEM fields. To help students navigate the complexities of college, policymakers are increasingly advocating for the use of … quality of advising impacts students' success. This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of college advisor …