outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable … centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally … interpret school-fixed-effect estimates. We find that management quality positively and substantially impacts standardized math …

a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible. -- small business finance ; consumer credit …

Canada is a country with two official languages, French and English. The need for both languages in Quebec and the Rest-of-Canada …

and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …

Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general … quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of …

, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …