Dear colleagues, We hereby invite you to join our next Economics of Inequality Research Seminar<https://www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/outreach/ineq-research-seminar> at WU Vienna. Pedro Carneiro<https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctppca/> (UCL) will present the paper Interactions: Do Teacher Behaviors Predict Achievement, Executive Function, and Non- Cognitive Outcomes in Elementary School? Co-Authors: Alejandra Campos (Columbia), Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo (IADB), Carolina Echeverri (University of Minnesota), Norbert Schady (World Bank) Date and Time: Monday, June 2nd; 3.00 p.m. Location: WU Vienna, D3 - D3.0.222<https://campus.wu.ac.at/?q=D3.0.222>. Abstract The quality of the interaction between a teacher and her students can be assessed through classroom observations, in which observers measure the extent to which a teacher engages in classroom behaviors that educators and educational psychologists believe to be conducive to learning. Using an experiment where i) students are randomly assigned to different teachers in each year of elementary school, ii) students are tested annually in math, language and executive function (EF), and iii) teachers are filmed for a day (from which the quality of their classroom interactions can be measured), we estimate the impact of being sequentially exposed to different levels of quality of interactions during the first 5 years of schooling. We show that: 1) teachers’ quality, as assessed by the quality of interactions with students, impacts their students’ achievement not only in math, language, but also in EF; 2) these impacts are small but persistent; 3) impacts are similar across grades; 4) teacher quality is perfectly substitutable across grades. Please register your participation here<https://www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/outreach/ineq-research-seminar/registration-carneiro>. Best regards, Franziska Disslbacher ---- Franziska Disslbacher, PhD Assistant Professor Institute for Spatial & Social-Ecological Transformations & Research Institute Economics of Inequality WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria CenTax Center for the Analysis of Taxation – University Warwick | LSE International Inequalities Institute – Research Fellow | Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality CUNY | SOEP / DIW – Associated Researcher World Inequality Lab PSE– Research Fellow +43 1 313 36 6669 franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at<mailto:franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at> franziskadisslbacher.com<http://franziskadisslbacher.com>