Abstract
At this time, environmental pollution is a challenging problem all over the world. Environmental pollution creates very serious problems for human beings. Here, discussed carbon pollution which is emitted from factories, etc. and the main reason for this type of pollution is energy consumption. The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of human capital on environmental pollution. For such purposes, energy consumption, economic growth, and employment are used as explanatory variables. The cross-sectional annual data of 46 countries from 1971 to 2015 are used. Auto-regressive Distributed Lag Model ARDL is used for co-integration among the variables. This ARDL model is also to analyze the short-term and long-term relationship among the variables. The separately run Dynamic Ordinary Least Square DOLS and fully modified ordinary least square FMOLS techniques are also used to check the individual relationship of variables and parameters estimation respectively. The result of this study shows that there is a negative relationship between human capital and environmental pollution in the long term. The Environmental Kuznets’s Curve EKC hypothesis explains the negative relationship between economic growth and carbon pollution.
Presenters
Ashfaq AhmadAssistant Professor, Economics Department, Government College Women University Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Pollution, Human Capital, Economic Growth, Energy Consumption, Employment
