TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kahn, Matthew E.
AU  - Barron, Kyle
        TI  - The Political Economy of State and Local Investment in Pre-K Programs
        PY  - 2015/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9337
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9337
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - early childhood investment
KW  - voting
KW  - urban
KW  - suburban
        ER  -