| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24818 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24818 |
| School Spirit: Legislator School Ties and State Funding for Higher Education | |
| Aaron K. Chatterji; Joowon Kim; Ryan C. McDevitt | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-07-16 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We explore a new mechanism to understand state funding for public colleges and universities by leveraging data on the educational experiences of state legislators, specifically if and where they received postsecondary education. Using novel, hand-collected data from 2002 through 2014, we provide comprehensive documentation for the first time in the literature on the educational backgrounds of state legislators. We find a statistically significant, positive association between the share of legislators who attended their states' public institutions and state funding for their entire public higher-education system. We also find a similar positive relationship between the share of state legislators who attended particular campuses of the state's public university system and funding for those campuses. This relationship is more pronounced among publicly educated legislators who represent legislative districts close to their alma mater's district, and becomes most consequential when the legislator's district contains his or her alma mater. We discuss the implications of our findings for academic studies on how politics and legislators' personal experiences in influence support for higher education. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; National Fiscal Issues ; Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24818 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582492 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Aaron K. Chatterji,Joowon Kim,Ryan C. McDevitt. School Spirit: Legislator School Ties and State Funding for Higher Education. 2018. |
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| w24818.pdf（598KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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