Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2017.1314823
Air pollution, economic growth and health care expenditure
Soheila Khoshnevis Yazdi
; Department Economics, College of Economics and Accounting, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
Bahman Khanalizadeh
; Department Economics, College of Economics and Accounting, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
In this article, we examine the role of environmental quality and
economic growth in the determination of health expenditure in
the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) countries for the
period 1995–2014 using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)
method to explore the estimating the impacts of economic growth
and environmental quality on heath expenditure. The results show
that health expenditure, income, CO2 and PM10 emissions are a
cointegrated panel. While long-run elasticities show that income and
CO2 and PM10 emissions have statistically significant positive effects
on health expenditure. The results show that the income elasticity is
inelastic, that health expenditure is not more sensitive to income and
the adjustment to changes in income in MENA countries.
Keywords
CO2 emissions; economic growth; health expenditure; panel data; PM10; Middle East and North Africa region (MENA)
Hrčak ID:
193294
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Publication date:
1.12.2017.
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