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Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?

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Ehrenberg, Ronald G. () (Cornell University, CHERI NBER and IZA Bonn)
Ehrenberg, Randy A. (North Colonie NY Central School District)
Smith, Christopher L. (MIT and CHERI)
Zhang, Liang (Cornell University and CHERI)

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Our paper analyzes historical data for New York State on the percentage of school board budget proposals that are defeated each year and panel data that we collected for individual school districts in the state. We find that changes in state aid have little impact on budget vote success. Defeating a budget in one year increases the likelihood that the voters will defeat a budget in the next year. Finally, districts have a larger probability of having their budget proposals defeated when their school board members have longer terms.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1053.

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Keywords: school budget votes

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I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance
H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue

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  1. Ronald G. Ehrenberg, 2005. "Involving Undergraduates in Research to Encourage Them to Undertake Ph.D. Study in Economics," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(2), pages 184-188, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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