-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

success, there is little evidence on how key educational inputs affect the development of these skills. We present a re …"Although recent evidence suggests that non-cognitive skills such as engagement matter for academic and economic …-analysis of follow-up data from the Project STAR class-size experiment and find evidence that early-grade class-size reductions …