The Impact of Career Politicians: Evidence from US Governors
利用美国州长是否拥有国会经历这一差异，研究政治职业经历如何影响联邦转移支付，发现拥有国会经历的州长能为其州争取到更多转移资金。
SUMMARY 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