We employ a recent empirical strategy to estimate country-specific and time-varying total factor productivity (TFP … of productivity in the manufacturing sector remained the prerogative of major developed countries. Thirdly, several … countries succeeded in climbing the ladder through outstanding productivity growth. Fourthly, despite a clear hierarchy in terms …

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

World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally … administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … interpret school-fixed-effect estimates. We find that management quality positively and substantially impacts standardized math …

also experience increases in sales per worker, wages, and measured total factor productivity. These effects are short …