We experimentally test how psychological motivations can impact the processing of purely objective information. We first document that, when the high-stakes College Entrance Exam is held in the month of Ramadan, Chinese Muslim students perform significantly worse. When asked about the impact of...

This paper documents the value of teacher education by comparing the effectiveness of traditionally and non-traditionally trained teachers. We utilize the unique data from a top school district in China and cross-subject models to address teacher-student sorting bias. Our results indicate that,...

This paper investigates the effects of China’s Free Teacher Education (FTE) program on recruiting prospective teachers in a rural and highly racially diverse province, Ningxia. We employ administrative data on all high school graduates in Ningxia from 2003 to 2018 to examine the trends of...