The Political Economy of State and Local Investment in Pre-K Programs

Matthew Kahn and Kyle Barron

No 9337, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The expansion of access to publicly provided pre-kindergarten bundles together redistribution to the poor with an early human capital investment. Financing publicly provided pre-K investment is mainly a state and local issue. Which voters favor local pre-K expansion? This paper uses several new data sets to describe the circumstances such that local voters reveal a willingness to spend on an early intervention that may not yield direct benefits for them. Republican voters consistently oppose the expansion of publicly provided pre-K. Suburban voters also tend to oppose such investment. We explore several possible explanations for these facts.

Keywords: early childhood investment; voting; urban; suburban (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2015-09
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