TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bellani, Luna
AU  - Fabella, Vigile Marie
        TI  - Upward Income Mobility and Legislator Support for Education Policies
        PY  - 2018/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11324
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11324
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - legislator voting behavior
KW  - education policies
KW  - upward income mobility
KW  - roll call votes
KW  - California
        ER  -