Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we … are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We … find that managerial practices are positively related to students' outcomes. The estimates imply that if Italy had the same …