This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at … the end of upper secondary school who are about to enter the labour market or start university without having had the … mathematics and reading (approximately 0.4 s.d. in both domains). Low-achieving pupils suffered the most, increasing the gap …

Argentina in a difference-in-difference framework to examine how exposure to teacher strikes during primary school affects long … between the ages of 30 and 40: being exposed to the average incidence of teacher strikes during primary school (88 days … employment income of all primary school teachers in Argentina by 19 percent. We also find evidence of a decline in hourly wage …

-based school system. The model accommodates equilibrium effects on parental sorting across school sectors (public or private), on … the self-selection of individuals into teaching and across school sectors, and on teacher wages in private schools. I use … the estimated model to simulate a reform that is planned to be implemented in Chile in 2023. Tying public school teacher …

-grade cohort in the American Community Survey. Cohorts with more exposure are more likely to graduate from high school and earn …

mentors. Although assignment of teachers to mentors was non-random, I use instrumental variables and school fixed effects to …, and student achievement. The most consistent finding is that retention within a particular school is higher when a mentor … has previous experience working in that school, suggesting that an important part of mentoring may be the provision of …

Empirical analyses for the US suggest that stronger people's control over the school budget is deleterious to student … through the school budget channel. In particular, the qualification of teachers is identified as most influential determinant …

conditions of primary school teachers, matching them by the year they entered the profession.After showing that teacher …