Elderly Migration and Education Spending: Intergenerational Conflict Revisited

Retirees have become and important demographic group for the fiscal systems of governments in the United States. A major factor in the rise of their importance is the rapid increase in elderly population. An important possible consequence of population aging is increasing fiscal pressure to spend on social security, health care, and other welfare programs that benefit the elderly at the expense of other programs such as education that benefit the young. In other words, population aging can lead to an intergenerational competition for scarce resources between the voters of different age groups.

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