Party Affiliation and Public Spending

Louis-Philippe Beland and Sara Oloomi ()

Departmental Working Papers from Department of Economics, Louisiana State University

Abstract: This paper investigates whether the party affiliation of governors (Democrat or Republican) has an impact on the allocation of state expenditures. Exploiting gubernatorial election results from 1960 to 2012 and a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD), we find that Democratic governors allocate a larger share of their budget to health/hospitals and education sectors. The results are robust to a wide range of controls and model specifications.

Date: 2015-08
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