This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First …, management quality in public schools is low, and ~2σ below high-income countries with comparable data. Second, private schools … have higher management quality, driven by much stronger people management. Third, people management quality is correlated …

This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First …, management quality in public schools is low, and ~2σ below high-income countries with comparable data. Second, private schools … have higher management quality, driven by much stronger people management. Third, people management quality is correlated …

management. To study this, researchers need to be able to measure school management accurately and cheaply at scale, and also … explain any observed relationship between school management and student learning. This paper introduces a new approach to … measurement using existing public data, and applies it to build a management index covering 15,000 schools across 65 countries …