How do alternative job opportunities affect teacher quality? We provide the first causal evidence on this question by … teachers. Unlike prior research, we directly assess teacher quality with value-added measures of impacts on student test scores …

How do alternative job opportunities affect teacher quality? We provide the first causal evidence on this question by … teachers. Unlike prior research, we directly assess teacher quality with value-added measures of impacts on student test scores …

Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for …. After measurement-error correction, a one-standard-deviation increase in teacher subject knowledge raises student … performance by 4% of a standard deviation. Results are robust to adding teacher fixed effects and are not driven by student or …

How do alternative job opportunities affect teacher quality? We provide the first causal evidence on this question by … teachers. Unlike prior research, we directly assess teacher quality with value-added measures of impacts on student test scores …

), teacher characteristics (Chapter 4), and education system (Chapter 5). …

Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance … teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique international assessment data to investigate the role of teacher … cognitive skills as one main dimension of teacher quality in explaining student outcomes. Our main identification strategy …

Student performance differs greatly across countries, but little is known about the role of teacher quality in … teacher skills in numeracy and literacy, providing country-level measures of teacher subject knowledge. Our student …-standard-deviation increase in subject-specific teacher skills raises student performance by 7 percent of a standard deviation in math and 6 …