Asili nidi e livelli di governo: evidenze da una prima ricognizione dei comuni italiani

Maria Alessandra Antonelli and Veronica Grembi

ECONOMIA PUBBLICA, 2009, vol. XXXIX, issue 5-6, 45-74

Abstract: This paper is an empirical survey on both the provision and the funding of childcare services in Italy. To this purpose, national financial laws, regional laws as well as Italian municipalities? budgets are analyzed. First of all we describe the funding mechanism of the service pointing out the relationship between different government levels. Secondly, we propose demand and supply indexes for 20 territorial clusters using data at the municipal level. The analysis shows that, de facto , the aim of the service is conceived in different ways by local governments. This implies uncoordinated policy interventions by the different levels of government as well as a huge unbalanced territorial distribution of both demand and supply. The characteristics of the local demand for the service seem to be crucial elements to promote an efficiency improvement of public expenditure for this service.

Keywords: Asili nido; Livelli di governo; Spesa pubblica; Comuni (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H44 H53 H72 H77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista. ... 565&Tipo=ArticoloPDF (text/html)
Single articles can be downloaded buying download credits, for info: https://www.francoangeli.it/DownloadCredit

Related works:
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:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/ep2009-005003

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.francoang ... io.aspx?IDRivista=16

Access Statistics for this article

ECONOMIA PUBBLICA is currently edited by FrancoAngeli

More articles in ECONOMIA PUBBLICA from FrancoAngeli Editore
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Stefania Rosato ().