relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3719/
title: School Infrastructure Spending and Educational Outcomes in Northern Italy
creator: Belmonte, Alessandro
creator: Bove, Vincenzo
creator: D'Inverno, Giovanna
creator: Modica, Marco
subject: DG Italy
subject: HB Economic Theory
subject: LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
description: 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.
date: 2017-07
type: Working Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nd
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3719/1/EIC_WP_6_2017.pdf
identifier:   Belmonte, Alessandro and Bove, Vincenzo and D'Inverno, Giovanna and Modica, Marco  School Infrastructure Spending and Educational Outcomes in Northern Italy.  EIC working paper series  #6/2017     ISSN 2279-6894.      
relation: IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca