Black primary-school students matched to a same-race teacher perform better on standardized tests and face more … probability that he drops out of high school, particularly among the most economically disadvantaged black males. Exposure to at … identification strategies, including an instrumental variables strategy that exploits within-school, intertemporal variation in the …

Teachers are among the most important school-provided determinants of student success. Effective teachers improve … school leaders and education policymakers, and how the tools of applied economics can help address those challenges. The … effective teachers. We also discuss how different policies, incentives, school characteristics, and professional …

Proposals to use teachers' performance incentives as the basis for school reforms have recently attracted considerable … and school staff as merit pay and the rest, for the well-being of teachers in the school. I evaluate the effect of the …

Improving the quality of instruction is a central component to virtually all proposals to raise school quality …

' involvement in school discipline is less understood. We estimate the impact of teacher demographics and other observed … identity of both the referred and referring individuals from a large and diverse urban school district in California, we find … middle school students. While it is unclear whether these findings are due to variation in teachers' effects on actual …

school teachers reaffirms these findings. Broadly, our findings suggest that the positive impact of Black teachers' ability …

parts: The first included 7 items about respondent characteristics, the second 16 items about school quality, the third 18 … policy makers to highlight teacher’s self-efficacy and satisfaction, and students’ and parents’ satisfaction and school …