For whom the bell rings? The availability of school infrastructure in Italy

Mauro Bucci (), Luigi Gazzano (), Elena Gennari (), Adele Grompone, Giorgio Ivaldi (), Giovanna Messina () and Giacomo Ziglio ()
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Mauro Bucci: Bank of Italy
Luigi Gazzano: Bank of Italy
Elena Gennari: Bank of Italy
Giorgio Ivaldi: Bank of Italy
Giovanna Messina: Bank of Italy
Giacomo Ziglio: Bank of Italy

No 827, Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: This paper proposes a set of indicators to measure the quality and availability of school infrastructure at the local level, based on information from the Italian school building register (Anagrafe dell’edilizia scolastica, ANAES). The indicators are calculated for each municipality and level of education (from pre-school to upper secondary) and cover several aspects (morphology, functionality, location); an innovative analysis is performed to obtain a measure of potential demand for school services, breaking down the local population by age and average travel time by car, to identify local shortcomings in the availability of school infrastructure. The indicators are also matched with a number of learning progress measures to assess the preliminary and purely descriptive impact of the quality and availability of school buildings on learning processes.

Keywords: education; school infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 H54 H75 I20 R53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-02
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