TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonrenewable energy—environmental and health effects on human capital
T2 - empirical evidence from Pakistan
AU - Asghar, Muhammad Mansoor
AU - Wang, Zhaohua
AU - Wang, Bo
AU - Zaidi, Syed Anees Haider
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - This research work reconnoiters the impact of nonrenewable energy (NRE) consumptions, environmental pollution, and mortality rate on human capital in the presence of economic growth and two common diseases, measles and tuberculosis (TB) in Pakistan. The study uses data from 1995 to 2017 and employs the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) model to investigate cointegration and long-run dynamics. Results indicate that nonrenewable energy (oil, coal, and gas) increase air pollution, measles, TB cases, and mortality rate, which affect the human capital in Pakistan. The results of the ARDL confirm the long-run and short-run effects of fossils fuels, air pollution, and diseases on human capital. The results of the Granger Causality confirm the feedback hypothesis between nonrenewable consumption and human capital, between air pollution and human capital. Measles and TB diseases Granger cause human capital. The study recommends some essential points for energy management, environmental management, and diseases control programs to uplift the human capital in Pakistan.
AB - This research work reconnoiters the impact of nonrenewable energy (NRE) consumptions, environmental pollution, and mortality rate on human capital in the presence of economic growth and two common diseases, measles and tuberculosis (TB) in Pakistan. The study uses data from 1995 to 2017 and employs the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) model to investigate cointegration and long-run dynamics. Results indicate that nonrenewable energy (oil, coal, and gas) increase air pollution, measles, TB cases, and mortality rate, which affect the human capital in Pakistan. The results of the ARDL confirm the long-run and short-run effects of fossils fuels, air pollution, and diseases on human capital. The results of the Granger Causality confirm the feedback hypothesis between nonrenewable consumption and human capital, between air pollution and human capital. Measles and TB diseases Granger cause human capital. The study recommends some essential points for energy management, environmental management, and diseases control programs to uplift the human capital in Pakistan.
KW - CO emissions
KW - Economic growth
KW - Human capital
KW - Nonrenewable energy
KW - Pakistan
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U2 - 10.1007/s11356-019-06686-7
DO - 10.1007/s11356-019-06686-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 31836971
AN - SCOPUS:85076826580
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 27
SP - 2630
EP - 2646
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 3
ER -
