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来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.91,P.73-87

语言

英文

关键字

Education finance;Age demographics;Intergenerational conflict;H75;D70

作者单位

Department of Public Policy, University of Connecticut, 1800 Asylum Ave. West Hartford, CT 06117, United States\n;Department of Economics, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, United States\n;Department of Public Policy, University of Connecticut, 1800 Asylum Ave. West Hartford, CT 06117, United States\n;Department of Economics, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, United States\n

摘要

We examine how a population's age distribution and a growing divide between the ethnic composition of older and young generations is likely to affect support for higher education funding. Using detailed survey data on voter preferences for higher education funding and precinct-level vote returns from locally-funded community college bond referenda in California, we find that older voters are significantly less supportive of higher education funding than younger voters and that support among older non-Hispanic white voters is particularly weak when those voters reside in a jurisdiction where the college-age population is more heavily Hispanic.