Table 1.

Definitions of variables

Abbreviation	Variable
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