HOW DO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION EXPENDITURES AFFECT HEALTH STATUS? EVIDENCE FROM PANEL QUANTILE REGRESSION1

Abstract

The relationship between environment and health status has attracted intensive attention in recent years. However, limited studies have focused on environmental protection expenditure on health status. This study empirically tests the links of environmental protection expenditure with health status for 20 European countries over the period 1995-2019. For empirical analysis, this study utilized panel quantile regression. The empirical results show that while environmental protection expenditure, GDP, and education help to ameliorate health status, CO2 emissions worse health status. Hence, efficient environmental protection expenditure and environmental policies must align with strategies to improve health status.