Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35655 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4161
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Elderly have been increasingly targeted as a group to enhance economic development and the tax base in communities. While recent literature on elderly migration tends to focus on how elderly migration patterns are influenced by state fiscal variables, the reverse effect from elderly population on fiscal variables is very plausible. This paper reexamines the intergenerational conflict in education financing using U.S. state and county level data. We analyze how preferences for education spending might vary across different elderly age groups, an analysis that has not been explored before. We estimate the impact of elderly population and elderly migration rates on education spending using panel data and spatial econometric techniques. Our results broadly support the presence of intergenerational conflict and age heterogeneity in preferences for education spending among elderly migrants.
Subjects: 
Population aging
elderly migration
education spending
intergenerational conflict
JEL: 
H75
R23
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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