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Managers and Productivity Differences
Guner, Nezih - 2016
We document that for a group of high-income countries (i) mean earnings of managers tend to grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle; (ii) the earnings growth of managers relative to non managers over the life cycle is positively correlated with output per worker. We interpret this...
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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014
the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …
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Teacher Assessments Versus Standardized Tests : Is Acting 'Girly' an Advantage?
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2017
We study if Italian teachers do apply gender discrimination when judging students. To this aim, we use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the availability of both teachers (non-blind) and standardized test (blind) scores in math and language that Italian students receive during...
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Managerial Practices and Student Performance : Evidence from Changes in School Principals
Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023
World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally …
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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on US Firms
Bloom, Nicholas; Fletcher, Robert S.; Yeh, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use survey data on an opt-in panel of around 2,500 US small businesses to assess the impact of COVID-19. We find a …
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Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania
Bardasi, Elena - 2012
survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …. Significant differences are observed across survey designs with respect to different labor statistics. Labor force participation … rates, for example, vary by as much as 10 percentage points across the four survey assignments. Using a short labor module …
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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David - 2015
Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labor force in developing countries works? We develop 26 questions that measure business practices in marketing, stock-keeping, record-keeping, and...
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The Missing "Missing Middle"
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2014
Although a large literature seeks to explain the "missing middle" of mid-sized firms in developing countries, there is surprisingly little empirical backing for existence of the missing middle. Using microdata on the full distribution of both formal and informal sector manufacturing firms in...
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Corruption in Developing Countries
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2011
Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists' ability to measure corruption. This, in turn, has led to a new generation of well-identified, microeconomic studies. We review the evidence on corruption in developing countries in light of these recent advances, focusing on three...
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