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Does Congressional experience in US governors influence state transfers?

Harry Pickard

No 2018014, Working Papers from The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between US governors who have previously served as a member of Congress and the federal transfers to their state. I assemble a novel dataset of governors political background and match this to federal transfer data from 1950 to 2008. Governors with Congressional experience have 0.8 percentage points more transfers to their state. I find no evidence of problematic trends or selection issues. Moreover, the result is robust to outliers in the data and many robustness checks.

Keywords: Career experience; Personal characteristics; Transfers; Congress; Leaders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 H30 H71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2018-09
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