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 …

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 …

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 …