the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

employer-employee (LEE) data to examine the impact of exports on plant average wage. I find that the wage increases … causal effect of exports on wage increase using LEE data, and the first to explore the underlying changes …

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 weigh into the debate about whether rising productivity is ever a consequence rather than a cause of exporting …. Exporting and investing to raise productivity are complimentary activities. For lower-productivity firms, incurring the fixed … foreign tariffs will induce these firms to simultaneously export and invest in productivity. In contrast, lower foreign …

and have a disproportionate effect on exports of least developed countries. Giving the poorest countries duty-free access … for peak-tariff products would increase their total annual exports by roughly $2.5 billion.Most goods imported from … their total annual exports by 11 percent - or roughly $2.5 billion. Exports to Quad countries of peak-tariff products would …

We weigh into the debate about whether rising productivity is ever a consequence rather than a cause of exporting …. Exporting and investing to raise productivity are complimentary activities. For lower-productivity firms, incurring the fixed … foreign tariffs will induce these firms to simultaneously export and invest in productivity. In contrast, lower foreign …