Short-term effects of national-level natural resource rents on life expectancy: A cross-country panel data analysis.

ABSTRACT: While a substantial amount of literature addresses the relationship between natural resources and economic growth, relatively little is known regarding the relationship between natural resource endowment and health at the population level. We construct a 5-year cross-country panel to assess the impact of natural resource rents on changes in life expectancy at birth as a proxy indicator for population health during the period 1970-2015. To estimate the causal effects of interest, we use global commodity prices as instrumental variables for natural resource rent incomes in two-stage-least squares regressions. Controlling for country and year fixed effects, we show that each standard deviation increase in resource rents results in life expectancy increase of 6.72% (CI: 2.01%, 11.44%). This co

SUBMITTER: Lyatuu I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8162665 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature