Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26268 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2223
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Generational conflict affects the supply of public welfare services, and the rising share of elderly is seen as a threat to educational spending. We offer an analysis of spending in child care, primary and lower secondary education, and care for the elderly related to the size of young and old voters. Using panel data from Denmark for the period 1989-1996, we find that the elderly are reducing spending in child care and education, but the young do not threaten elderly care. It is a disadvantage for both the elderly and the young to be part of a large cohort.
Subjects: 
public welfare services
group size
age composition of the population
generational conflict
JEL: 
H42
H72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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