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Managing to Learn

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  • Sabrin A. Beg
  • Anne E. Fitzpatrick
  • Adrienne Lucas

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To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning (0.11SD) with existing systems and personnel. Additional management training improved People Management but not student test scores. Managerial enhancements and student test score gains persisted. Our findings resolve conflicting results regarding the role of management in public sector productivity and demonstrate how public sector managers can signal reform effectiveness through personal commitment, acting as leaders.

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  • Sabrin A. Beg & Anne E. Fitzpatrick & Adrienne Lucas, 2023. "Managing to Learn," NBER Working Papers 31757, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31757
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    JEL classification:

    • H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • M53 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Training
    • M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth

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