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 …

This study investigates whether foreign origin teachers causally affect their students language skills in secondary … of immigrants significantly increase the reading comprehension of students. The effect is strongest for foreign origin … students and can partly be explained by a role model effect. The positive effect of bilingual foreign origin teachers is …

foreign origin students, surprisingly little is known about the effect of having a foreign origin teacher on students … skills of students in German secondary school, holding constant both observed and unobserved factors related to academic … first to show that foreign origin teachers significantly increase the reading comprehension of students. Most notable is the …

. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from … blind graders. This effect is almost entirely driven by grading penalties incurred by high-performing immigrant students and … exam are not used for tertiary enrollment decisions, we show that immigrant students who attend schools with biased …

. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from … blind graders. This effect is almost entirely driven by grading penalties incurred by high-performing immigrant students and … exam are not used for tertiary enrollment decisions, we show that immigrant students who attend schools with biased …