Table 1.
Abbreviation | Variable |
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GHESit | Government health expenditure as source; measured as a percentage of the country’s mean GDP for country i in year t |
DAHGit | Development assistance for health channeled to a government; measured as a percentage of the country’s mean GDP for country i in year t |
DAHNGit | Development assistance for health not channeled to a government; measured as a percentage of the country’s mean GDP for country i in year t |
GGEit | General government expenditure, net of government health expenditure as source; measured as a percentage of the country’s mean GDP for country i in year t |
GDPit | Gross domestic product; measured per capita and log transformed for country i in year t |
POPit | Population for country i in year t; log transformed |
GROWTHit | Annual percentage change in GDP for country i in year t |
αi | Unobserved time-invariant country-specific characteristics (fixed effects) |
τt | Unobserved idiosyncratic time shock (fixed effects) |
εit, νit | Error term for country i in year t |