Does health aid crowd out domestic budgets?

• Does health aid crowd out domestic budgets?

  Test within countries whether external health aid is followed by lower domestic government health spending.

  1 Nov 2026

No experiments yet. The first funded run adds one here.

1. 01

   Fixed-effects replication

   Is the within-country aid-to-domestic-spending association negative?

   Pre-registered: Coefficient in [-0.6, -0.1], 95% CI excludes zero

   score 5.0value 5 · cost 1 Run
2. 02

   Debt service as competing channel

   Does external debt service explain more variance than aid?

   Pre-registered: Debt-service coefficient larger in absolute standardised magnitude than the aid coefficient

   score 4.0value 4 · cost 1 Run
3. 03

   Specification multiverse

   How robust is the sign across reasonable specifications?

   Pre-registered: Negative sign holds in >=80% of a pre-specified grid of >=200 specifications

   score 2.5value 5 · cost 2 Run