that the austerity programme successfully reduced combined public spending on health and long-term care, but had adverse … effects on the health of vulnerable users. …

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …

. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …