We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … teachers are linked to the presence of minorities in the classroom. We then test the key implications of this model using rich … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … teachers are linked to the presence of minorities in the classroom. We then test the key implications of this model using rich … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

(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. …

Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an … comparing the achievements of students with immigrant teachers to the achievements of observationally similar students with … teachers do not have a negative impact on the educational achievements of native students. Additional tests suggest that this …

Teachers are among the most important inputs in the education production function. One mechanism by which teachers … grading standards on student outcomes are relatively understudied. Using administrative data that links individual students … and teachers in 8th and 9th grade Algebra I classrooms from 2006 to 2016, we examine the effects of teachers' grading …

We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of grade 12 test scores in public schools in Delhi. There … and parents' education have no predictive power. There is some evidence that principals' rating of teachers and value …

the first part of teachers' career increase students' maths and science performance, while the effect was less pronounced … between subjects and by the experience of teachers. Higher statutory teacher salaries and larger growth of teacher salaries at … teacher salaries at the second part of teachers' career may be the result of the lack of data on teachers' actual salaries. …