Intergenerational conflict and the political economy of higher education funding |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Public Policy, University of Connecticut, 1800 Asylum Ave. West Hartford, CT 06117, United States\n;2. Department of Economics, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, United States\n;1. Department of Economics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA;2. Department of Management and Marketing, Texas A&M, Prairie View, TX 77446, USA;3. Department of Economics, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS 1TN, United Kingdom;1. Department of Economics, University of Munich, Schackstrasse 4, Munich 80539, Germany;2. CEPR;3. IZA;4. Department of Economics, Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, AZ 85287-9801, USA;1. Royal Institute of Technology/VTI, Stockholm, Sweden;2. Department of Economics-KULeuven, Naamse Straat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium and CTS-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;1. Department of Management and Technology and CRIOS, Bocconi University, Via Sarfatti 25, I-20136 Milan, Italy;2. Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milan, Italy |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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