This paper investigates how upward mobility affects legislator voting behavior towards education policies. We develop … 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 …

incentives tounite, relative to larger regions. We show, however, that on thewhole, majority voting on separation and union …

education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards … 'education for all'. The optimal mechanism design of such a targeted transfer program is investigated. -- School Attendance …

. Chapter 3 examines whether the municipalities' voting behavior in state elections in a German state influenced the …, ob das Wahlverhalten der Gemeinden bei Landtagswahlen in einem deutschen Bundesland die Verteilung von diskretionären …

In this paper, we analyze how a weighted voting system introduced in 1862, which shifted the distribution of political … power from landowners to industrialists at local town meetings, affected investments in local public education. We use an … also economically substantial. For example, per capita spending on education increased by approximately 37% within 6 years …