Abstract

Using panel data for OECD countries, this study investigates the extent to which changes in government spending on education, health and other areas influence long-term growth. The results suggest that, if total government spending is kept unchanged, increasing expenditure on health, education and transport raises long-term GDP growth. In contrast, government spending on housing is found to weaken long-term GDP growth. The error-correction specification used allows assessing adjustment speed which, consistent with intuition, is estimated to be slow. According to the econometric results, it takes more than five years for half of the effect of a change in the structure of government spending to be reflected in longterm growth. Nouvelles evaluations econometriques de l'effet a long terme sur la croissance de differentes categories de depense publique Au moyen de donnees de panel pour les pays de l’OCDE, cette etude examine la maniere dont les modifications du niveau des depenses publiques d’education, de sante et dans d’autres domaines influencent la croissance a long terme. Les resultats suggerent que, pour un niveau donne de depenses publiques totales, une augmentation des depenses de sante, d’education et de transport augmente la croissance a long terme. A l’inverse, les depenses publiques de logement semblent affaiblir la croissance a long terme. Le modele a correction d’erreur employe pour cette etude permet d’evaluer la vitesse d’ajustement qui, conformement a l’intuition, se revele etre lente. D’apres les resultats econometriques, il faut compter plus de cinq ans avant que 50% des effets d’un changement de la structure des depenses publiques ne se fassent sentir dans la croissance a long terme.

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