The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of school quality on performance in national exams and the career … achievements, and community variables. We find that, conditional on school type, the pupil-teacher ratio has no effect on … appears to be very robust and sustains when school type variables, exam results, and ability are controlled for …

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

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 …