Do Deep Regional Trade Agreements Improve Residents’ Health? A Cross-Country Study

Zhizhong Liu, Qianying Chen (), Guangyue Liu () and Xu Han
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Zhizhong Liu: School of Finance and Trade, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China
Qianying Chen: School of Finance and Trade, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China
Guangyue Liu: School of Finance and Trade, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China
Xu Han: School of Marxism, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 21, 1-16

Abstract: The development trend of deepening regional trade agreements (RTAs) is becoming more prominent, traditional RTAs based on border terms continue to shift to deep RTAs based on the high level of border terms and a series of post-border terms, but the relationship between deep RTAs and residents’ health has not drawn much attention. Based on Gallup World Poll data from 2009 to 2017 covering 786,040 respondents in 143 countries, this study empirically examined the impact of deep RTAs on the health of residents as well as its influence mechanisms by using the combination of fixed effects and stepwise regression. The results show that deep RTAs have a significantly positive impact on residents’ health, which means that an increase in the depth of RTAs can improve residents’ health. However, the impact of deep RTAs on residents’ health is heterogeneous, caused by the different terms of RTAs, the different income levels of different countries, and the different types of residents. Meanwhile, deep RTAs mainly improve the health of residents through employment effects and environmental effects. This study highlights the importance of deep RTAs for improving the health of residents and provides new ideas for governments to assist in the formulation of policies that can effectively improve their residents’ health.

Keywords: regional trade agreements (RTAs); depth; residents’ health; employment effects; environmental effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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