This paper assesses the effect of teachers on the gender gap in student test scores. It combines different empirical strategies from the value-added and labor economics literature to estimate teacher value-added and its contribution to the math and reading gender gaps. We use rich administrative...

A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...

The authors (Langvinienė, 2014; Prentice, 2020; Grasso & Sergi, B.S. Eds., 2021) claim that over the past few decades, tourism has continuously expanded and strived to become one of the largest and fastest growing economic sectors in the world. Tourism is primarily a vital industry for the social and...