This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the … in preventing 1.9 hospital admissions (-2.1%) due to cardiovascular diseases per day, per 1 million population. We also …

introduction of new Low Emission Zones across cities in Germany. We use detailed hospitalization data combined with geo …

hospitalizations during the years 2007-2011 in Germany in order to evaluate the short-term impact of this policy on alcohol …

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 …

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital …-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …