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Does environment quality and public spending on environment promote life expectancy in China? Evidence from a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag approach
Author(s) -
Shah Muhammad Haroon,
Wang Nianyong,
Ullah Irfan,
Akbar Ahsan,
Khan Karamat,
Bah Kebba
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.3100
Subject(s) - life expectancy , distributed lag , china , environmental quality , empirical research , lag , environmental degradation , quality of life (healthcare) , empirical evidence , government (linguistics) , economics , quality (philosophy) , population , economic growth , public economics , geography , psychology , environmental health , econometrics , political science , statistics , computer science , medicine , biology , philosophy , mathematics , psychotherapist , computer network , ecology , linguistics , archaeology , epistemology , law
Environmental quality has become a growing concern for Chinese society since the last 2 decades in China. The large contribution of different pollutants severely affected the environmental quality that untimely affects life expectancy in the country. In this backdrop, the present study investigates the impact of environmental quality and public spending on the environment for life expectancy in China using the period 1999Q1–2017Q4. We employ nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) approach for the empirical assessment. The outcomes of the study reveal the existence of a long‐run relationship between environmental quality, public spending on the environment and life expectancy in China. The empirical finding reported that life expectancy reacts differently in response to positive and negative shocks of environmental quality both in the long‐ and short‐run. Environmental quality and spending on the environment increase the life expectancy, furthermore, population has a positive and significant association with life expectancy only in short run while in long run it does not affect. Hence, the government needs to roll out policies to enhance environmental quality and ensure adequate funding for environmental preservation, to achieve both longevity of society and sustainability of the eco‐system.