Support for Local Educational Expenditures by the Elderly : Evidence from Japan

• Miyaki Miki

• Kimura Masaki

Abstract

Refereed Article

This study investigates the relationship between the elderly population and public educational expenditures at the kindergarten, primary school, junior high school, and high school levels in Japan. We applied the dynamic estimation method to data on local expenditures on education after the late 1990s, when aging negatively impacted educational expenditure in Japan. The estimation results indicate that the elderly are unlikely to support an increase in current expenditures that constitute a considerable fraction of payroll at any educational level. However, they display a positive attitude toward capital expenditures which mainly comprised construction costs for a relatively higher educational level.

Journal

• 国際公共政策研究

  国際公共政策研究 25 (1), 1-21, 2020-09

  大阪大学国際公共政策学会

Keywords

• aging population
• educational expenditures
• local governments
• components of educational expenditures
• educational levels

Details

• CRID: 1390572174772094720
• NII Article ID: 120006887499
• NII Book ID: AA1115271X
• DOI: 10.18910/77123
• ISSN: 24320870
• HANDLE: 11094/77123
• Text Lang: en
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • IRDB
  • CiNii Articles