equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of …We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity … subordinates the skills needed to succeed, since less skilled players have more to learn. We also find that managers with more …

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link … 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 …

are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We …

This short note provides a framework for looking at public sector governance and productivity improvements. It argues … that the role of government in enhancing productivity growth is two-fold. First, government should provide an environment … that is conducive in improving total factor productivity in private sector production. Second, government should work to …

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …

productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …