Wenxin Wang1,2 Muhammad Hafeez3 Hong Jiang1,2 Muhammad Usman Ashraf3 Muhammad Asif4 Muhammad Wasim Akram5
Author Details:
1.Department of Public Administration, Law School, Shantou University, 243 Daxue Road, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China. 2.Institute of Local Government Development, Shan‐Tou 515063, People’s Republic of China. 3.Institute of Business Management Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan. 4.Department of Management Sciences, City University, Peshawar, Pakistan. 5.Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.
Abstract
The presented work analyzes the energy prices, climate shock, and health deprivation nexus in the BRICS economies for the period 1995–2020. Panel ARDL-PMG technique is used to reveal the underexplored linkages. The long-run estimates of energy prices are observed to be negatively significant to the health expenditure and life expectancy model, whereas, positively significant to the climate change model. These findings suggest that energy prices significantly reduce health expenditures and life expectancy and, thus, increase the death rate in the BRICS economies. The long-run country-wise estimate of energy prices is found negatively significant in case of Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. Alongside, the group-wise significance of CO2 emissions is discovered to be negatively, positively, and insignificant in the cases of life expectancy, death rate, and health expenditure models, respectively. Besides, country-wise long-run estimate of CO2 emissions witnesses negative significance for Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Keywords: BRICS, Climate shocks, CO2 emissions, Energy prices, Human health, Panel ARDL-PMG
Cite this article:
Wenxin Wang, Muhammad Hafeez, Hong Jiang, Muhammad Usman Ashraf, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Wasim Akram. How do energy prices and climate shocks affect human health? Insights from BRICS. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24218-8
