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 …

and Chad Syversson, 2008). Unfortunately, analyzing to what extent this heterogeneity in productivity is due to management … tools of this research, particularly Bloom and Van Reenen (2007) - henceforth BVR – for measuring management and …