This research examines whether teacher licensure test scores and other teacher qualifications affect high school …

-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school …

This paper studies a large-scale educational expansion to evaluate whether shocks to school inputs have an impact on … doubled enrollment in adult education, thus putting considerable strain on school inputs. Since the policy targeted … stronger negative shocks to peer quality and school resources such as teacher credentials and perpupil expenditure. Then, I …

school teachers reaffirms these findings. Broadly, our findings suggest that the positive impact of Black teachers' ability …

, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the … affected school years without adjusting the core curriculum. The loss of classroom instruction was mainly compensated for by …

This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5771 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

scores in the explanation of children's outcomes in the transition from elementary to secondary school in terms of initial … twice as important as the elementary school cognitive test scores for initial track placement in secondary school. In …

-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean … administrative records with a regression discontinuity design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance …