well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a … method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …

the case of metal crime, where in the face of big increases in value driven by world commodity prices, the incidence of …

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 …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

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