Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa

Adel Ben-Youssef (), Laurence Lannes, Christophe Rault and Agnes Soucat
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Adel Ben-Youssef: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Laurence Lannes: World Bank
Agnes Soucat: World Health Organization
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Adel BEN YOUSSEF

No 10325, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy, greenhouse effect, and government expenditure per capita) for a sample of 16 African countries over the period 1971-2010 (according to availability of countries' data). We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. Our results show that health and energy consumption are strongly linked in Africa. Unilateral causality is found from energy consumption to life expectancy and child under-5 mortality for Senegal, Morocco, Benin, DRC, Algeria, Egypt, and South Africa. At the same time, we found a bilateral causality between energy consumption and health indicators in Nigeria. In particular, our findings suggest that electricity consumption Granger causes health outcomes for several African countries.

Keywords: electricity; energy consumption; health; Panel VAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q43 Q53 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2016-10
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Published - published in: Journal of Energy and Development, 2016, 41 (2), 175-200.

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