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Energy poverty and respiratory health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Effects and transmission channels

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  • Messie Pondie, Thierry
  • Engwali, FON Dorothy
  • Ongo Nkoa, Bruno Emmanuel
  • Noubissi Domguia, Edmond

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This paper analyses the effect of energy poverty on respiratory health for a sample of 34 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2000–2020. Using ordinary least squares (OLS), fixed effect, Driscoll-Kraay, Lewbel 2SLS, Kiviet and S-GMM, the results provide strong evidence of a negative and significant effect of access to electricity and access to clean energy for cooking on respiratory disease in sub-Saharan Africa. This result remained robust to changes in the variables of interest and to alternative estimation techniques. Furthermore, the results showed the existence of a non-linear relationship between energy indicators and respiratory diseases, including a U-shape and an N-shape. Based on these results, we encourage policy makers to better orient their energy policies towards the least polluting sectors in sub-Saharan Africa. In this way, the respiratory health of the inhabitants of sub-Saharan Africa can be improved.

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  • Messie Pondie, Thierry & Engwali, FON Dorothy & Ongo Nkoa, Bruno Emmanuel & Noubissi Domguia, Edmond, 2024. "Energy poverty and respiratory health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Effects and transmission channels," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 297(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:297:y:2024:i:c:s0360544224009319
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131158
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    Keywords

    Energy poverty; Respiratory health; Sub-Saharan Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O50 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - General
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy
    • Q49 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Other

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