effects of being elected into Swedish student union councils on subsequent labor market careers. Marginally elected students …

outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra coursework to continue …. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a …

We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of …

county in China with many left-behind children. Data are collected from over 4,000 primary schoolchildren (8 to 10 years old …

and randomly assigned teacher-student sample in China. We find that having a more experienced or female homeroom teacher … (HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …