Corruption and public spending on education and health. Issue 4 (23rd February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Swaleheen, Mushfiq; Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami; Temimi, Akram
• Is Part Of: Applied economics letters. Volume 26:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 321
• Page End: 325
• Publication Date: 2019-02-23
• Subjects: Corruption -- education -- health; O33 -- D73 -- C33; Economics -- Periodicals; Economics, Mathematical -- Periodicals; 330
• DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2018.1468549
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1350-4851

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Existing country and regional studies show that the effect of corruption on public spending on health and education is mixed. This letter reveals that the effect of corruption on health and education spending is significant and non-linear in a panel of 134 countries observed over two decades: For an overwhelming majority of countries, corruption has a positive effect on the share of public resources spent on public health and a negative effect in the case of education. The results presented are robust to several econometric challenges ignored in the literature.