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 …

We use a reform that was recently implemented in Italy to investigate the effects on academic achievement of more … set out the comparison of similar students undergoing alternative progression rules, and to shed light on whether, and to … across curricular tracks, picturing at best – depending on the data employed – a marginal improvement for students in …

-methods approach to investigate the hypothesis that Black peers improve white teachers' effectiveness when teaching Black students. The … significantly improves the achievement and reduces the suspension rates of white teachers' Black students. These effects are … to successfully teach Black students is not limited to their direct interaction with Black students but is augmented by …

This paper addresses the issue of school students' part-time employment in the last year of compulsory education, and …

Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an … immigrant background affect the academic achievements of secondary school students in the United States. To account for the … different types of students, two estimation strategies are employed. The first estimates the immigrant teacher impact by …