Existing country and regional studies show that the effect of corruption on public spending on health and education is … mixed. This letter reveals that the effect of corruption on health and education spending is significant and non-linear in a … effect on the share of public resources spent on public health and a negative effect in the case of education. The results …

models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …