This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills …

It remains unclear whether governments can improve health outcomes by solely increasing public spending on health care …. In this paper, we provide first causal evidence on the impact of an increase in public spending on primary care on health … municipalities did not translate into better health on average, with coefficients precisely estimated around zero. Corruption or the …

health spending reform prompted by Brazil's 29th Constitutional Amendment, which mandated municipalities to spend at least 15 …We examine the link between public spending in health and health outcomes by leveraging differential exposure to a …% of their budget on health. We map dynamic effects on health care spending, inputs, access, outputs and outcomes. For …