nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …

We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and … gains from reallocating teachers within a district. Using an estimated equilibrium model of the teacher labor market, we … find that achieving most of these gains requires directly affecting teachers' preferences over schools. In contrast …

proportion of black teachers, family fixed-effects models that compare siblings who attended the same school, and the random … assignment of students and teachers to classrooms created by the Project STAR class-size reduction experiment. …

I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade …

of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant … grading to teachers' stereotypes, elicited through an Implicit Association Test (IAT). We find that math teachers with … stronger stereotypes give lower grades to immigrants compared to natives with the same performance. Literature teachers do not …