著者

中川 暁敬

出版者

生活経済学会

雑誌

生活経済学研究 (ISSN:13417347)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.41, pp.65-76, 2015

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Aging progresses, in Japanese local governments, the cost of welfare has been pressure on the budget. The reason is that, the demand of residents and system of the country has increased the cost of welfare. In this paper, we assumed that budget of the local governments are determined by the demand of residents. We examined the relationship between the current expenditure of local governments and aging by median voter hypothesis. At this time, we assumed that median voter is median age of 20 years of age or older. For the analysis of public demand function, we used the data of the local governments that have less than 100,000 and more than 50,000 populations. We were confirmed that median voter hypothesis is applied in these small and medium cities. From the results of this analysis, we were confirmed that budget of these governments are increased by median age of 20 years of age or older, average salary of civil servants and population. On the other hand, these are decreased by local tax rate and population density.