Science spending

Spending symmetry

Building Public Support for Science Spending: Misinformation, Motivated Reasoning, and the Power of Corrections

While most Americans support scientific research, few favor an increase in federal investment. This opposition is driven in large part by misinformation about the actual level of governmental support for science. Employing an experiment embedded on a nationally representative survey, we find that most Americans significantly overestimate the share of the federal budget allocated to scientific r...

Science Violated: Spending Projections and the “Costing Out” of an Adequate Education

the recent movement to hold schools accountable for student performance has highlighted a simple fact: Many students are not achieving at desired levels.1 Moreover, it takes little additional evidence to realize that many schools are not on an obvious path toward eliminating the gaps. These simple facts have led people with widely varying reform perspectives to enter into the fray with plans an...

Campaign Spending Limits, Incumbent Spending, and Election Outcomes

We study the impact of campaign spending limits for candidates in Canadian federal elections. We first demonstrate that spending limits are binding mostly for incumbent candidates. We then use this information to produce endogeneity-corrected estimates for the impact of incumbent spending on electoral vote shares. Furthermore, we examine the impact of spending limits on broader measures of elec...

Spending by Singles

Meaghan Duetsch is an economist in the Branch of Information and Analysis, Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics. MEAGHAN DUETSCH Do single women spend their money differently than single men do? If so, can their spending differences be attributed to differences in characteristics between the two groups? In addition, have the spending patterns of single men and si...