This paper takes a fresh look at the issue of foreign aid fungibility. Unlike the bulk of existing empirical studies, I employ panel data that contain information on the specific purpose for which aid is given. This allows me to link aid given for education and health purposes to recipient...

We introduce a new ‘supply-push’ instrument for foreign aid, to be used together with an instrumental variable estimator that filters out interactive fixed effects. We use this instrument to study the effects of aid on macroeconomic ratios, and especially the ratios of consumption,...

This paper draws further attention to the importance of taking into account off-budget aid when estimating the degree of foreign aid fungibility. It does so by re-evaluating the results of a recent, influential paper which concluded that health aid is fully fungible in the long run. Allowing for...