%0 Report
        %A Kahn, Matthew E.
%A Barron, Kyle
        %T The Political Economy of State and Local Investment in Pre-K Programs
        %D 2015
        %8 2015 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9337
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9337
        %X 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.
        %K early childhood investment
%K voting
%K urban
%K suburban