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| Title: | | Demographic change and public education spending : a conflict between young and old?  |
| Authors: | | Grob, Ueli Wolter, Stefan C. |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working papers 1555 |
| Abstract: | | Demographic change in industrial countries will influence educational spending in potentially two ways. On the one hand, the decline in the number of school-age children should alleviate the financial pressure. On the other hand, the theoretical/empirical literature has established that the concomitantly increasing proportion of elderly in the population can influence the propensity of politicians to spend on education. Using a panel of the Swiss Cantons for the period from 1990 to 2002, we find that the education system has exhibited little elasticity in adjusting to changes in the school-age population, and that the share of the elderly population has a significantly negative influence on the willingness to spend on public education. |
| Subjects: | | public finance education finance demographics panel estimates Switzerland |
| JEL: | | H72 J18 I22 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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