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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19019| Title: | Demographic change and public education spending : a conflict between young and old? |
| Keywords: | H72 J18 I22 ddc:330 public finance education finance demographics panel estimates Switzerland Öffentliche Bildungsausgaben Public Choice Alternde Bevölkerung Schätzung Teilstaat Schweiz |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| Description: | 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. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19019 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19019 ppn:503671231 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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