scores. Chapter 2 investigates the impact of four teacher characteristics - whether teachers hold a Master's degree, a … subject-specific qualification, a major in education, or their level of experience - on student science test scores in ten … different countries. Chapter 3 shows that teacher subject-specific qualifications positively affect student science test scores …

reform of education standards in math and English has negative spillovers on student achievement in science. Finally, Chapter … not only affect religiosity and gender role attitudes, but also affects the high-stakes choices of getting married, having … children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …

math-science at a lower cost, while not directly affecting the course choices of younger siblings. We find that younger … siblings are 2-3 percentage points more likely to choose math-science if their older sibling unexpectedly could choose math-science …

This paper applies recent spatial regression techniques in peer effects estimation to a sample of 33 countries in the … IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education …, a significant, but small gender achievement gap amounting to 10% of a country-level standard deviation is confirmed in …

We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement …, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We …

We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on … individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …

-quality relationships with their classmates and teachers, which may harm the long-term development of noncognitive skills. Our findings on …