Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 139
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434591
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286980
Cover Image
Education and health : the role of cognitive ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196088
Cover Image
Education, intelligence and diseases in old age
Niccodemi, Gianmaria; Bijwaard, Govert - 2018
Several studies have found a positive association between education and health. Confounding factors that a ect both education choices and health, such as (ob- served) parental background and (unobserved) intelligence, may play an important role in shaping this association. In this paper we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874515
Cover Image
Comparing IV with structural models : what simple IV can and cannot identify
Heckman, James J.; Urzua, Sergio - 2009
This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on the basis of their ability to answer well-posed economic problems with minimal assumptions. A key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808520
Cover Image
Corruption and the shadow economy : a structural equation model approach
Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009
The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or complement each other -exhibiting either a negative or positive relationship. This paper -using a structural equation model with two latent variables - extracts information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847100
Cover Image
On econometric analysis of structural systems with permanent and transitory shocks and exogenous variables
Pagan, Adrian R. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper considers the implications of the permanent/transitory decomposition of shocks for identification of structural models in the general case where the model might contain more than one permanent structural shock. It provides a simple and intuitive generalization of the influential work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003536155
Cover Image
The credibility revolution in empirical economics : how better research design is taking the con out of econometrics
Angrist, Joshua D.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2010
This essay reviews progress in empirical economics since Leamer's (1983) critique. Leamer highlighted the benefits of sensitivity analysis, a procedure in which researchers show how their results change with changes in specification or functional form. Sensitivity analysis has had a salutary but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941791
Cover Image
International human trafficking : measuring clandestinity by the structural equation approach
Rudolph, Alexandra; Schneider, Friedrich - 2013
Worldwide human trafficking (HT) is the third most often registered international criminal activity, ranked only after drug and weapon trafficking. The aim of the paper is to measure the extent of HT inflows to destination countries. It proposes the application of the Multiple Indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229937