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 …

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 …

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 …

We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly …

before adulthood. We address the question: in Sweden, given its present constellation of social policies and institutions, to …

influence who we marry and our labor market outcomes. This study uses panel data on immigrants and their spouses in Sweden to …

implementation across Sweden. We first show that the reform reduced crime rates for the generation directly affected by the reform …