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Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

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 …

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Managerial practices and students' performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014

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 …

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Managerial practices and student performance : evidence from changes in school principals

Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023

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 …

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Heterogeneous treatment and self-selection in a wage subsidy experiment

Brouillette, Dany (contributor); Lacroix, Guy (contributor) - 2008

The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The first, the eligibility condition, required that they remain on welfare for at least twelve months....

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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries

Bibi, Sami (contributor); Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor) - 2008

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...

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Assessing the impact of a wage subsidy for single parents on social assistance in Canada

Lacroix, Guy - 2009

In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last up to three years to recipients who found a full-time job within twelve months. The program was...

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Economic impact of marine related activities in Canada

Pinfold, Gardner - 2009

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Economic impact of marine activities in large ocean management areas

Pinfold, Gardner - 2009

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Macroeconomic impacts of Canadian immigration : results from a macro-model

Dungan, Douglas Peter; Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley - 2012

. -- macroeconomic impact ; immigration ; FOCUS Model ; Canada …

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The pitfalls of work requirements in welfare-to-work policies : experimental evidence on human capital accumulation in the self-sufficiency project

Riddell, Chris; Riddell, William Craig - 2012

This paper investigates whether policies that encourage recipients to exit welfare for full-time employment influence participation in educational activity. The Self-Sufficiency Project ('SSP') was a demonstration project where long-term welfare recipients randomly assigned to the treatment...

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