investigates the impact of gender norms on labor-supply expectations of adolescents. Chapter 3 analyzes the effects of the Corona …

, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS …

lead teachers to look for additional jobs in other schools. Although this is a more common phenomenon of teacher labor … markets in developing countries, teachers who teach specific subject areas are in general more likely to hold positions in … more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper …

the effects of language of instruction on reading skills and early labour market outcomes. The results indicate that the … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly … by about 11 percentage points. The provision of primary education in mother tongue halved the reading skills gap between …

the effects of language of instruction on reading skills and early labour market outcomes. The results indicate that the … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly … by about 11 percentage points. The provision of primary education in mother tongue halved the reading skills gap between …

the pool of teachers, amplified by equilibrium effects on teacher wages in private schools. The equilibrium effects are …

, in the first year, and when they graduate. They also have a higher number of failures. Students in STEM majors drive …

. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of second-ary school increased dramatically, suggesting that parents choose …