The Effect of PM 2.5 from Household Combustion on Life Expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Badamassi Aboubacar, Xu Deyi, Mahaman Yacoubou Abdoul Razak and Boubacar Hamidou Leyla
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Badamassi Aboubacar: School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Xu Deyi: School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Mahaman Yacoubou Abdoul Razak: Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medicine, Key Laboratory of Education Ministry of China for Neurological Disorders, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China
Boubacar Hamidou Leyla: Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources of Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Household fuel combustion, especially using solid combustibles (biomass and fossil fuels), for cooking and other activities produces emissions that contribute to concentrations of indoor as well as outdoor air pollutants such as particulate matter with diameter smaller than 2.5 μm (PM 2.5 ) that deteriorate health and likely affect life expectancy (LEX). This study investigates the impact of PM 2.5 from household combustion on LEX considering several covariates while controlling for ambient PM 2.5 generated by other sectors. The generalized method of moments (GMM) model and the panel cointegration model were applied to a dataset of 43 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries over the time period of 1995–2010. Both approaches provide similar results indicating that household PM 2.5 is significantly and negatively associated with higher aggregate LEX in the long-run, and, to a greater degree for female’s. Also, among the control variables, PM 2.5 from the transport sector has a greater influence on male’s LEX. Thus, efforts should be combined to reduce household PM 2.5 since lower levels are associated with increased LEX.

Keywords: household combustion; PM 2.5; life expectancy (LEX); biomass fuel; solid fuel; general method of moments (GMM); panel cointegration; Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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