This article considers the relationship between ethnicity within the elderly population and education spending … literature by examining the dynamics between the elderly population and ethnicity and its impact on education finance. Using a … national panel public school district data set, it is found that increased ethnic fragmentation within the elderly population …

negative impact on educational spending. These papers have linked the share of the elderly with the per capita or per pupil … line of research shows in many cases a negative correlation between the shares of elderly people and educational … groups. The analysis shows that elderly people present a clear tendency to be less willing to spend money on education. They …