Upward Income Mobility and Legislator Support for Education Policies

Luna Bellani and Vigile Marie Fabella ()
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Vigile Marie Fabella: University of Konstanz

No 11324, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper investigates how upward mobility affects legislator voting behavior towards education policies. We develop an electoral competition model where voters are altruistic parents and politicians are office seeking. In this setting the future economic status of the children is affected both by current public education spending and by the level of upward mobility. Using a newly compiled dataset of roll call voting on California education legislation matched with electoral district-level upward mobility we find that the likelihood of a legislator voting "no" on redistributive education bills decreases by 10 percentage points when upward mobility in his electoral district decreases by a standard deviation.

Keywords: legislator voting behavior; education policies; upward income mobility; roll call votes; California (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H4 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2018-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-edu, nep-pol and nep-ure
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Published - revised version published as 'Social mobility and education policy: a district-level analysis of legislative behavior' in Socio-Economic Review, 2024, 22 (2), 533 - 571

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