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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014
centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we … find that managerial practices are positively related to students' outcomes. The estimates imply that if Italy had the same …
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Does management matter in schools
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
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Managerial Practices and Student Performance : Evidence from Changes in School Principals
Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023
We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link 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...
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom : Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario - 2014
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy : The Impact of Secondary School Tracks
Checchi, Daniele; Flabbi, Luca - 2021
, Italy and Germany, to see how the common feature of separate tracks at Secondary School level may produce different impacts … parental education. We then move to country-specific data sets (ISTAT 2001 for Italy and GSOEP 2001 and 2002 for Germany) to …, where the aspiration to go to college is affected not only by the school type but also (in the case of Italy only) by …
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Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education
Biroli, Pietro - 2017
We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0–3) and preschool...
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Evaluation of the reggio approach to early education
Biroli, Pietro; Del Boca, Daniela; Heckman, James J.; … - 2017
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Counting Rotten Apples : Student Achievement and Score Manipulation in Italian Elementary Schools
Battistin, Erich - 2014
We derive bounds for the average of math and language scores of elementary school students in Italy correcting for …
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