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Environmental Mortality and Long-Run Growth

In: Dynamic Systems, Economic Growth, and the Environment

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  • Ulla Lehmijoki

    (University of Helsinki, HECER, and IZA)

  • Elena Rovenskaya

    (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA))

Abstract

There is emerging evidence that environmental degradation increases human mortality. This paper provides a long-run consumer optimization model in which mortality is endogenous to emissions generated by production. Emissions are assumed to follow the EKC path, first rising and then falling along with output. In the optimum, some deaths are accepted as an exchange for consumption. The model is estimated for the European outdoor air pollution data, showing that Europe has reached the downward sloping segment of the EKC. Economic growth will thus decrease rather than increase pollution in the future. Nevertheless, continuous population growth may increase the number of deaths in some countries.

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  • Ulla Lehmijoki & Elena Rovenskaya, 2010. "Environmental Mortality and Long-Run Growth," Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance, in: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma & Tapio Palokangas & Alexander Tarasyev (ed.), Dynamic Systems, Economic Growth, and the Environment, pages 239-258, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:dymchp:978-3-642-02132-9_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02132-9_12
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