(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and … noncognitive abilities. In contrast, these effects are not observed for subject teachers who are responsible only for teaching …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences … results are robust to potential endogenous matching between students and teachers. …

(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and … noncognitive abilities. In contrast, these effects are not observed for subject teachers who are responsible only for teaching …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences … results are robust to potential endogenous matching between students and teachers …

Information about teachers' effectiveness at the hiring stage is particularly scarce despite its importance for … personnel decisions. Using the German setting of teacher training, I investigate the relationship of teachers' pre …

today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus … encouraged individuals with different teaching abilities to eventually become teachers. I find that replacing a non …-affected teacher with an educational expansion teacher leads to a 2 percent reduction in students' test scores. Explorative analyses …

overlooks teachers’ potential impact on behavioral outcomes such as student attendance. Using longitudinal data on teachers and … students in North Carolina I estimate teacher effects on primary school student absences in a value-added framework. The … analysis yields two main findings: First, teachers have arguably causal, statistically significant effects on student absences …

students. We use administrative data from North Carolina elementary schools to examine the extent to which teachers vary in … of students who do not receive disciplinary sanctions from the teacher. Similarly, while teachers with a racial bias in … absenteeism and reduce achievement for Black students. The results suggest punitive disciplinary measures do not aid teachers in …