that a reduction in the import tariff induces an incumbent importer/exporter to increase the quality of its exports and to … Chinese data and robust to various estimation specifications …

's producers to upgrade the quality of their exports. The paper first documents stylized facts regarding the effect of trade …

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

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 …

that a reduction in the import tariff induces an incumbent importer/exporter to increase the quality of its exports and to … Chinese data and robust to various estimation specifications …

that a reduction in the import tariff induces an incumbent importer/exporter to increase the quality of its exports and to … Chinese data and robust to various estimation specifications …

We evaluate the impact of firm-specific export subsidies on exports in Colombia. Using a two-stage Heckman selection … persistence in exports, we find that although, in general, subsidies exhibit positive impact on export volumes, this impact is … diminishing in subsidy size and in the degree of firm's connectedness to government officials. -- Export subsidies ; exports …