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The educational impacts of a major school infrastructure programme: causal evidence from Portugal
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This paper studies the educational impacts of an extensive modernisation programme of public schools in Portugal. In the school years between 2007/08 and 2011/12, 1.2 billion Euros of government spending were directed to improve the infrastructure of public schools, aiming to enhance learning environments. Using large-scale administrative educational panel data, with over 3 million individual specific observations from 2007-2018, and information on the modernisation programme in each school, we implement a difference-in-differences empirical strategy to test if investments influenced student achievement in external examinations. As most estimates are insignificant, we conclude that the modernisation programme had no clear positive impact on student achievement.
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Education Exam performance Public school infrastructure Government expenditure on education Difference-in-difference