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

the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …

use a dynamic structural model and focus on transition paths from school to work for youths in Canada and the U.S. Using …, cognitive abilities seem to be more important in determining youths' educational attainment in the U.S. than in Canada. However … these educational subsidies are smaller in Canada than in the U.S. On the other hand, immigration policies designed to admit …

, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess mortality and a …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences in the distribution of ﾓclass sizeﾔ and … time-in-term, other school factors and student background factors. Class size and time-in-term are both important school …

Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of …

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 …