Replication Package: Improving School Management in Low and Middle Income Countries -- A Systematic Review

Replication package for Anand, G., Atluri, A., Crawfurd, L., Pugatch, T. and Sheth, K. (2023), "Improving school management in low and middle income countries: A systematic review," Economics of Education Review. A meta-analysis of school-management and headteacher-training programmes in low- and middle-income countries, with an external-validity comparison against PISA 2015, TALIS 2018, TIMSS 2019, TERCE 2013, and PASEC 2019. Contents (235 KB zip): four small derived .dta + CSV files in Input/ (effect-size meta-analysis panel metan.dta, external-validity panel externalvalidity.dta, derived PISA-2015 school-autonomy panel pisa2015.dta, systematic-review study list studies.csv), 10 Stata do-files (data prep, table 2 / autonomy, meta-analysis forest plots, external validity, annex), master script, and README. The four bundled Input/ files are sufficient to reproduce every published table and figure. Reconstructing pisa2015.dta etc. from the upstream international assessment microdata (OECD PISA, IEA TALIS/TIMSS, UNESCO TERCE/PASEC) is documented in the data-prep do-files but the upstream raw data are not bundled (downloadable from each assessment's original source). Rebuild date 2026-04-25.