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Managers and Productivity Differences
Guner, Nezih; Parkhomenko, Andrii; Ventura, Gustavo - 2015
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; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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; Casula, Laura - 2016
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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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014
the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421154
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Eliciting Probabilistic Expectations with Visual Aids in Developing Countries : How Sensitive are Answers to Variations in Elicitation Design?
Delavande, Adeline - 2017
Eliciting subjective probability distributions in developing countries is often based on visual aids such as beans to represent probabilities and intervals on a sheet of paper to represent the support. The authors conducted an experiment in India that tested the sensitivity of elicited...
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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 - 2017
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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Basel III Implementation and SME Financing : Evidence for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
Fisera, Boris - 2019
This paper examines the effect of Basel III implementation on the access to finance of small and medium-size enterprises in 32 emerging markets and developing economies. Analyzing rich, repeated cross-sectional data and a panel of matched firm-bank data in a difference-in-differences setting...
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Playing to Strength : Growth Strategy for Small Agrarian Economies in Africa
Yusuf, Shahid - 2018
With urban industrialization on the scale achieved by East Asian economies looking increasingly less plausible, small economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a growth strategy with the greatest potential for small,...
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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
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? This study developed 26 questions that measure business practices in marketing, stock-keeping,...
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