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| Eduardo C. De Souza, Marcelo R. Dos Santos and Vitor A.T. Fancio |
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| ''Manager education and firm productivity - evidence from Brazil'' |
| ( 2022, Vol. 42 No.4 ) |
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| We merge two important Brazilian datasets (RAIS and PIA) to produce firm-level total factor productivity estimates that control for workers' human capital. Then we investigate the correlation between top managers' education and firms' TFP considering different levels of industry disaggregation. We find a positive, albeit small correlation for the industrial sector as a whole, and much higher correlations for some 2-digit industries. Also at the 2-digit level, we find that the positive correlation between firm TFP and manager schooling is lower for industries more dependent on external finance. Our results are robust to alternative, control function methods of
TFP estimation, and to using different measures of manager education. |
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| Keywords: firm TFP ; manager human capital ; industry characteristics |
JEL: O1 - Economic Development: General
L6 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General |
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| Manuscript Received : Mar 09 2022 | | Manuscript Accepted : Dec 30 2022 |
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