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Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals

Although much has been written about the importance of leadership in the determination of organizational success, there is little quantitative evidence due to the difficulty of separating the impact of leaders from other organizational components – particularly in the public sector. Schools provide an especially rich environment for studying the impact of public sector management, not only because of the hypothesized importance of leadership but also because of the plentiful achievement data that provide information on institutional outcomes.

Rodney J. Andrews

Rodney Andrews, a Harvard University Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar, is an assistant professor of economics in the School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences and the director of the Texas Schools Project.

Dr. Andrews' areas of expertise include economics of education, labor economics, public finance, and applied microeconometrics.

Steven Rivkin

Steven G. Rivkin is Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at University of Illinois at Chicago.  He is also Associate Director of Research with the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas, Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a part of the CALDER Texas team.  He was also a post-doctoral fellow in the NSF urban poverty program at Northwestern University.

Eric Hanushek

Eric A. Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is also Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas, and a member of the CALDER Management Team, leading the CALDER Texas work.  He is chair of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences, a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education.