Afonso, AntónioJalles, João Tovar2022-09-262022-09-262013Afonso, António and João Tovar Jalles. (2013). "The cyclicality of education, health, and social security government spending". Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 20, No.7: pp. 669-672.1466-4291 (Online)http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/25598We use a panel of developed and emerging countries for the period 1970 to 2008 to assess the cyclicality of education, health and social security government spending. We mostly find acyclical behaviour, but evidence also points to counter-cyclicality for social security spending, particularly in OECD countries, consistent with the operation of automatic stabilizers.engBusiness CycleCyclicalityFunctional SpendingPanel Analysisjournal article10.1080/13504851.2012.730125