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 …

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 …