@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp18294,
            	author={Goulas, Sofoklis and Megalokonomou, Rigissa and Sartori, Tommaso},
            	title={All Eyes on the Nerd? The Unequal Distribution of Teachers’ Attention},
            	year={2025},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={18294},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18294},
	abstract={Teachers play a central role in shaping how students benefit from peers, yet little is known about how classroom composition affects their attention-allocation decisions. We conduct a large-scale randomized experiment using realistic class- room vignettes to assess how teachers engage with students under varying scenarios and objectives. The presence of a high achiever reduces the likelihood that teachers engage with a low achiever by about 8%, with substantially larger effects when teachers prioritize task success, consistent with convenience-based decision-making. Using administrative data, we show that low achievers perform worse when quasi-randomly assigned to a classroom with an exceptional student.},
	keywords={randomized controlled trial;attention allocation;teacher behavior;educational inequality;peer effects},
            }