A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...

This paper estimates the long-run impacts of banning affirmative action on men and women from under-represented minority (URM) racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Using data from the US Census and American Community Survey, we use a difference-in-differences framework to compare the...

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects on the academic achievement of students in a large university located in a northern Italian region severely affected by the pandemic. Thanks to the richness of our data, we can investigate for the first time the role of two...

Wie eignen sich wissenschaftliche MitarbeiterInnen das Feld der Wissenschaft an und welche Strategien entwickeln sie, um sich erfolgreich zu positionieren? An empirischem Material wird gezeigt, dass Haltungen und Perspektiven der WissenschaftlerInnen milieu- und habitusspezifisch sehr...