that Italian students receive during the school year. Using data for all sixth graders, descriptives show that in both …

absences, or exclude student absences altogether. Regardless of how between-school differences are accounted for, VAM … context of self-contained primary school classroom teachers. These results are consistent with recent research suggesting that …

We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response …

We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for …

Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority …

organizations. Primary school classrooms provide an ideal context in which to test the predictions of representative bureaucracy … theory at the micro (student) level. Specifically, since parents have at least some agency over primary school students …' daily attendance, absences reflect parental assessments of their child's school, classroom, and teacher. The …

characteristics and levels of ability, students' relative rank within the classroom, and school context. High teacher grading …

Teachers are among the most important school-provided determinants of student success. Effective teachers improve … school leaders and education policymakers, and how the tools of applied economics can help address those challenges. The … effective teachers. We also discuss how different policies, incentives, school characteristics, and professional …

Black primary-school students matched to a same-race teacher perform better on standardized tests and face more … probability that he drops out of high school, particularly among the most economically disadvantaged black males. Exposure to at … identification strategies, including an instrumental variables strategy that exploits within-school, intertemporal variation in the …