Background and Aim: Public health expenditures and the quality of governance are among factors affecting the health status of a population. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction effects of good governance and public health expenditures on the health status of children in upper-middle income countries. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytical applied ...

In California, personal health care expenditures are estimated to total more than $367 billion in 2016. Approximately 71 percent of these expenditures will be paid for with public funds (i.e., taxpayer dollars). This estimated contribution of public funds to health care expenditures is much higher than estimates that include only major health insurance programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Se...

DO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES CROWD OUT PUBLIC EXPENDITURES IN U.S. STATES? Jia Wang Abstract: This paper sets out to investigate whether incentives spending crowds out public spending in U.S. states. Using data from an evolving national database, this paper employs a two-way fixed effect panel framework and GMM approach to account for the dynamic features associated with public expenditur...

Much has been gained by the EIA. By the deadline, 100% of school systems were in compliance, and no waivers were granted. The percentage of students in temporary classrooms declined from 5.4% to 4.2%. The number of systems with facilities rated “Poor” declined from 16 to 8, and the actual number of “Poor” schools went down from 44 to 20. In the 5-year period examined in this study, the number o...

Governments in developing countries spend money on goods and services that have an impact on people’s exposure to risk. This paper presents a simple approach to valuing such expenditures from the perspective of risk reduction. There are two types of expenditures: public provision of insurance, such as for health care or crop yields; and policies aimed at other objectives that change peoples’ ri...

This study was designed to explore sources of funds for health expenditure of patients if they are hospitalized. We have included 379 patients of 3 private and 7 public hospitals to estimate total expenditure. Of them, 229 (60.4%) were from public and 150 (39.6%) from private hospitals. Mean expenditure was Tk 60,613.3 and 8,262.7, and duration of hospital stay was 10.7 and 11.8 days in private...

the purpose of this paper is to examine and evaluate the effects of government intervention on the iranian economy over the last few decades. it is shown that public expenditures affect the value added of each economic sector not only simultaneously, but lagged over several periods. regression results show that the value added from the agricultural sector has never been affected by government e...

abstractaccording to public choice theory, the features of the tax structure effect on voters' perceptions from the tax burden, so they pay more cost for public goods, lower than the estimate. in this study has been investigated the relationship between tax and public expenditures in the iranian economy during 1360-1390 based on public choice theory to examine the level of government spend...

‘C HILD welfare services furnished by the States and localities are financed from Federal, State, and local funds. A study of expenditures made by State and local public welfare agencies for child welfare services in the year ended June 30, 1956, shows that, although the States vary in the amounts expended, some patterns become apparent when they are grouped according to region, urban-rural cha...