We develop and estimate a joint model of the education and teacher-expectation production functions that identifies …-fulfilling prophecies. The identification strategy leverages insights from the measurement-error literature and a unique feature of a … nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel …

This study was prepared by Annika B. Bergbauer while she was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education … paper relates education measures to economic development. The following three papers contribute to the understanding of …

-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while …'s teachers, and knowledge of the correlation structure of teacher knowledge across time and grades, allow estimating two …

From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …