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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
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 … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408867
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What drives differences in management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …
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Do small businesses create more jobs? : new evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series
Neumark, David (contributor); Wall, Brandon (contributor);  … - 2008
We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this...
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Small business economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian reservation
Benson, David A.; Lies, Aaron; Okunade, Albert A.; … - 2009
Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794055
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Entrepreneurship, self-employment and business data : an introduction to several large, nationally-representative datasets
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2009
Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...
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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon
Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010
Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the US context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...
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Finance and growth at the firm level : evidence from SBA loans
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2015
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...
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Taking the leap : the determinants of entrepreneurs hiring their first employee
Fairlie, Robert W.; Miranda, Javier - 2016
Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring patterns and decisions of startups. Longitudinal data from the Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (iLBD), Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), and the Growing America through...
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Job creation, small vs. large vs. young, and the SBA
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Morgulis, Yana - 2015
Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...
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