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 …

focused academic achievement to noncognitive outcomes. Drawing on a representative survey of middle-school students and … teachers in China, we focus on schools in which student-teacher assignments are random. Our results show that having a female … find that the effect on test scores is larger for students whose parents are less educated or have migrated out. There is …

positively affects students' life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores, based on a sample from … the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35 thousand students from approximately 1500 schools in 14 countries. We perform …

student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To … circumvent potential bias due to unobserved student heterogeneity, we exploit variation within students across math and reading …

teacher characteristics on students' science achievement. My identification strategy exploits the feature that in many …. The availability of students' test scores as well as teachers' questionnaires for each of these domains allows me to … of teacher specialization in the specific science domain on students' results, equivalent to 1.7% of a standard deviation …

, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and …-girl schools. These findings are based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35 thousand students from …

student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To … circumvent potential bias due to unobserved student heterogeneity, we exploit variation within students across math and reading …

survey data from England to examine the impact of teacher gender on students' socio-emotional skills. We employ a student … fixed effects model. Our findings show that male teachers positively influence male students' prosocial behavior, while … negatively affecting female students' peer problems. We provide support for the role model hypothesis and present novel evidence …

learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …