Budgetary Trade-Offs Between Defense, Education and Health Expenditures: The Case of Turkey

Onur Ozsoy

Defence and Peace Economics, 2002, vol. 13, issue 2, 129-136

Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to evaluate empirically the existence of a budgetary trade-off between military, education and health expenditures in Turkey for the time period 1925-1998. Development economists, peace and defense economists and political economists have extensively investigated the existence of a trade-off between military, education and health spending since the 1970s. However, the literature review reveals that it is hard to establish a general theory of budgetary trade-off between military, education and health spending and make this applicable for all cases. This is mostly due to economic, social, political, and historical differences among the countries Moreover, it is likely that different research techniques, different time periods analyzed may produce different results. As a result of this, researchers have found a variety of outcomes regarding the trade-off between defense-education and health expenditures. This study presents a brief literature review within the framework of trade-offs between defense-education and health expenditures and also concentrates on theoretical model development. The discussion will center on developing a multi-variable single equation regression model and presenting estimable forms of equations.

Keywords: Turkey; Defense Expenditure; Health Expenditure; Educational Expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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