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- Title
The weight of the median voter ageing on public debt.
- Authors
Dautovic, Ernest
- Abstract
This paper studies the relationship between an ageing society and voter preference for financing public expenditures with debt versus income taxation. We focus on advanced economies and OECD members where ageing is relatively severe, the political process is more democratic, and economic institutions are subject to electorate scrutiny. Since there are no international data sources available for the median voter age, one of the contributions of this paper is the construction of a median voter series for the countries included in the study. The sample period covers 30 years, from 1980 to 2010. The panel estimates confirm the Brennan hypothesis (Const Polit Econ 23(3):182–198, <xref>2012</xref>). A 1-year ageing of the median voter increases the public debt to GDP ratio by on the order of 4.5 percentage points.
- Subjects
PUBLIC debts; PUBLIC spending; GROSS domestic product; VOTERS; RICARDIAN equivalence theorem
- Publication
Constitutional Political Economy, 2018, Vol 29, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
1043-4062
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10602-017-9248-8