heterogeneity in management practices across establishments in Germany, with small firms having lower scores than large firms on … average management score is lower in Germany than in the US. Overall, our results point towards lower management quality being …Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate …

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 …

.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …

East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …

into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the …