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. …

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 …

behavior of students, teachers and administrators depends on the incentives facing them and the actions of the other actors in … achievement trends. Even though, greater rigor and higher standards improve learning, parents and students prefer easy teachers …Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to …

involved in foreclosure, we investigate the degree to which the test scores of students attending high-foreclosure schools … suffer, even among students not directly experiencing foreclosure. We also explore the impact on individual test scores of … school-level (by grade and year) student mobility - that is, inflows of new students to a school during the school year …