With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the 'feminization' of elementary school teaching is … causing debates about disadvantages for male students. Using administrative panel data on the universe of students, teachers …' effects on students' tracking outcomes. Germany tracks students at age 10 into more or less academic school types. I find …

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy … skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others …. These results imply that the scope to improve teachers' skills varies between countries and that policy makers should take …

We investigate the effect of stereotypical beliefs of teachers on the learning outcomes of secondary school students in … India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … characteristics in academic performance. We tackle the potential endogeneity of teacher’s subjective beliefs by controlling for …