estimate the causal impact of winning the award on the school choice decisions of talented teachers. By exploiting the fact …The extensive sorting of more talented teachers into the most advantaged schools contributes to the wide socioeconomic … program in the region that provides monetary incentives to talented teachers with an additional bonus if they work in …

share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school … teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides …

secondhand smoke, reinforce anti-tobacco curricula taught in schools, and prevent children from viewing their teachers and fellow … students using tobacco products. We examine the impact that the laws have on the smoking behavior of students, teachers, and … other school staff by estimating difference-in-differences models that exploit the time variation in adoption of the laws …

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school … teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in …) teachers by 10 percentage points. The policy also reduced the pupil-qualified teacher ratio by 27, or 61% of the mean, in …