Using detailed survey data on management practices, this paper uses recent advances in unconditional quantile analysis … to study the changes in the within country distribution of management quality associated with country convergence to the … emerges as the frontier country, not because of on average better management, but because its best firms are far better than …

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 exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern …

dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …