We analyze a new management survey for around 1,000 firms and 10,000 employees across two large provinces in China. The … unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO, a random sample of senior managers and workers. We … document four main results. First, management scores, much like productivity, have a wide spread with a long left-tail of …

--men vs. women, young vs. old, new hires vs. senior employees, and so on? To address questions like these, we begin by …. Furthermore, the wage gap between the most highly paid employees within these firms (CEOs and high level executives) and the …

. women, young vs. old, new hires vs. senior employees, and so on? To address questions like these, we begin by constructing a …. Furthermore, the wage gap between the most highly paid employees within these firms (CEOs and high level executives) and the …

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 … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …

management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities … offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower …