Understanding school management with public data: A new measurement approach and applications

Clare Leaver, Renata Lemos and Daniela Scur

No 14069, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Why do students learn more in some schools than others? One consideration receiving growing attention is school management. To study this, researchers need to be able to measure school management accurately and cheaply at scale. We introduce a new approach to measuring management practices using existing public data and exemplify the methodology with OECD's PISA and Brazil's Prova Brasil. Both indices show a strong, positive relationship between management and learning. But why do management practices impact student learning? We propose a new theoretical framework that maps school management to school functioning via intermediate outcomes relating to teachers and households, and from this to student learning. An application of our methods highlights that both principals and practices matter for student outcomes.

Keywords: Management; Teacher selection; Teacher incentives; Cross-country (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J3 M5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-10
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