Nexus Among Economic Growth, Education, Health, and Environment: Dynamic Analysis of World-Level Data

Suleman Sarwar; Majid Ibrahim Alsaggaf; Cao Tingqiu

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2019.00307

Nexus Among Economic Growth, Education, Health, and Environment: Dynamic Analysis of World-Level Data

Front Public Health. 2019 Oct 25:7:307. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00307. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Suleman Sarwar^{1

2}, Majid Ibrahim Alsaggaf², Cao Tingqiu¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Economics, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
² Finance and Economics Department, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

The aim of current study is to examine the nexus among economic growth, education, health issues, and carbon emission for the panel of 161 countries. Education and health have confirmed insignificant coefficients for economic growth and carbon emission, which mention that higher education and better health conditions are not useful for boosting economic development and for controlling environmental degradation process. Empirical estimations have reported that higher capital investment leads to increase the economic process and carbon emission. Higher educational standard and capital investment helps to control the health issues, in the long- and short-run. On contrary, higher carbon emission creates health issues. The given results can provide support to the economic, social, and environmental policy makers during policy decisions. For example, the study suggests green financing and low carbon economy concept; the government and industries have to increase the investment on modern, energy efficient, and green technologies, which are useful for economic development, as well as to control the environmental degradation process.

Keywords: carbon emission; economic growth; education; health; panel data.