The Intergenerational Conflict over the Provision of Public Education ∗ Dennis Epple Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Richard Romano University of Florida Holger Sieg Carnegie Mellon University and NBER April 28, 2010 ∗ We would like to thank Roland Benabou, Steve Coate, Steve Durlauf, Francois Ortalo- Mange, Antonio Merlo, Sven Rady, Tom Romer, Karl Scholz, Steve Slutsky, David Wildasin and seminar participants at the ASSA meeting in Chicago, the University of Wisconsin, the SED meeting in Prague, a SITE workshop on fiscal federalism at Stanford, a PIER conference on political economy at the University of Pennsylvania, a workshop on dynamic political econ- omy at Princeton, and the ASSA meeting in San Francisco, and the University of California in Berkeley. We would also like to thank Dylan Harrison-Atlas and Jason Imbrogno for research assistance. Financial support for this research is provided by the National Science Foundation (SBR-0617844).