School Infrastructure Spending and Educational Outcomes in Northern Italy

Alessandro Belmonte, Vincenzo Bove, Giovanna D’Inverno and Marco Modica
Additional contact information
Giovanna D’Inverno: IMT Lucca

SPRU Working Paper Series from SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School

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: Living standards; Wages; Multipliers; High-technology; Cities; Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-eur and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/documents/2017-20-swps-belmonte-et-al.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: School Infrastructure Spending and Educational Outcomes in Northern Italy (2017)
Working Paper: School Infrastructure Spending and Educational Outcomes in Northern Italy (2017)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sru:ssewps:2017-20

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in SPRU Working Paper Series from SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by University of Sussex Business School Communications Team ().