@techreport{eprints3719,
          author = {Alessandro Belmonte and Vincenzo Bove and Giovanna D'Inverno and Marco Modica},
            type = {EIC working paper series},
           title = {School Infrastructure Spending and Educational Outcomes in Northern Italy},
          number = {IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca},
     institution = {IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca},
           month = {July},
            year = {2017},
        abstract = {We explore whether investment in public school infrastructure affects
students' achievement. We use data on extra funding to public
high schools after the 2012 Northern Italy earthquake and apply a
quasi-experimental design and an instrumental variable strategy. We find that spending on school infrastructure increases standardized test
scores in mathematics and Italian language, and the effect is stronger
for lower-achieving students and in mathematics. These results provide
evidence in favor of a positive impact of capital spending in improving
the learning environment and performances of high school
students.},
        keywords = {Keywords: education; school infrastructure spending; high school.
JEL Classification: I22, I24, H75.},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3719/}
}