Pickard, H. (2021) The impact of career politicians: evidence from US governor. Kyklos, 74 (1). pp. 103-125. ISSN 0023-5962
Abstract
This paper exploits the presence of Congressional experience in US governors that permits the identification of the relationship between political career experience and intergovernmental transfers. 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 show evidence for one potential channel that this may act through, the federal grants system. The findings are robust to outliers in the data, selection effects, close elections and an alternative dependent variable based on a state’s share of total federal transfers
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. Kyklos published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Career politicians; Experience; Personal characteristics; Transfers; Congress |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 21 May 2020 14:51 |
Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2021 16:16 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/kykl.12253 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:161088 |