TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ben-Youssef, Adel
AU  - Lannes, Laurence
AU  - Rault, Christophe
AU  - Soucat, Agnes
        TI  - Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa
        PY  - 2016/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10325
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10325
        AB  - We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy, greenhouse effect, and government expenditure per capita) for a sample of 16 African countries over the period 1971-2010 (according to availability of countries' data). We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. Our results show that health and energy consumption are strongly linked in Africa. Unilateral causality is found from energy consumption to life expectancy and child under-5 mortality for Senegal, Morocco, Benin, DRC, Algeria, Egypt, and South Africa. At the same time, we found a bilateral causality between energy consumption and health indicators in Nigeria. In particular, our findings suggest that electricity consumption Granger causes health outcomes for several African countries.
        KW  - electricity
KW  - energy consumption
KW  - health
KW  - Panel VAR
        ER  -