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 …

We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and … gains from reallocating teachers within a district. Using an estimated equilibrium model of the teacher labor market, we … find that achieving most of these gains requires directly affecting teachers' preferences over schools. In contrast …

proportion of black teachers, family fixed-effects models that compare siblings who attended the same school, and the random … assignment of students and teachers to classrooms created by the Project STAR class-size reduction experiment. …

I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade …

I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self …-select into less demanding high-schools, following the track recommendation of their teachers. These effects are at least …

mothers with university education, there is no difference in the math achievement of girls and boys, which suggests that … maternal education specifically, and home environments generally, are important. There is no evidence that teacher quality … effects, teacher effects, or the observed interactions between teachers and children. …

child in our sample was exposed to four separate, orthogonal shocks to the quality of teachers and peers. We first show that … mothers with university education, there is no difference in the math achievement of girls and boys. We use the experimental …, teachers, and peers. We find no evidence of differential responses by gender. …