We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-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 …

Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers … on essentials (e.g. food, housing). We estimate income management's impact on birth outcomes by exploiting its staggered …

's welfare in Aboriginal communities. The policy – known as income management – quarantines 50 percent of welfare payments to be … key policy objective. We identify the causal impact of income management on attendance rates by exploiting exogenous … variation in its staggered rollout across communities. We find no evidence that income management increased attendance …

cashless welfare card / Shelley Bielefeld -- Ideology vs context in the neoliberal state's management of remote Indigenous … 'Advancement' era in Australia / Alexander Page -- The tyranny of neoliberal public management and the challenge for Aboriginal …