Economics, Econometrics and Finance
4 years ago

Increase in Education and Health Spending Outperforms Other Fiscal Policies.

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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
On the Composition of Public Spending and Taxes
George Economides, Hyun Park, Apostolis Philippopoulos, Stelios Sakkas

Paper Summary

The study looked at how different types of government spending and taxes affect the economy. By using a model that includes categories like education and health spending, the researchers found that increasing spending on education and health would have been better than other fiscal policy changes since 2008.

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