EFFECTS AND MECHANISMS OF CEO QUALITY IN PUBLIC EDUCATION

Victor Lavy; Genia Rachkovski; Adi Boiko

doi:10.1093/ej/uead026

EFFECTS AND MECHANISMS OF CEO QUALITY IN PUBLIC EDUCATION

Victor Lavy^*
, Genia Rachkovski
, Adi Boiko

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Economics

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Abstract

‘CEOs’ of public schools in many countries have authority and responsibilities that can greatly affect the quality of schooling. This paper estimates the impact of CEOs on student outcomes in Israeli elementary schools. We estimate CEO quality in two ways—once using schools that do not switch CEOs and once using schools that do. We show that switches are exogenous and are not correlated with potential outcomes. CEO quality positively affects students’ test scores and behavioural outcomes, with pronounced effects for disadvantaged schools. Potential mechanisms show that high-quality CEOs lead to improvements in school priorities, working procedures and violence reduction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2738-2774
Number of pages	37
Journal	Economic Journal
Volume	133
Issue number	655
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead026
State	Published - 1 Oct 2023

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