On the nexus of pandemic, environment, and health

ABSTRACT

This study estimates the impacts of pandemic uncertainty on environmental quality in the United States (U.S.). To do so, we introduce a pandemic uncertainty dataset from 1985 to 2021 that will be helpful for a single country, a group of countries, and firm-level analyses. Our baseline models confirm that pandemic uncertainty improves environmental quality, however, it reduces labour force participation. In addition, the income level helps to improve environmental quality.

KEYWORDS:

• Pandemic uncertainty
• environmental quality
• health impact
• USA

JEL CODE:

• O13
• I10
• O40

Acknowledgment

We would like to thank the editor, Prof. Mark Taylor, and two anonymous referees for their valuable suggestions and helpful comments which have significantly enhanced the quality of the paper. All remaining errors and omissions are our own. Najid Ahmad would like to thank Global Justice Program, Yale Univeristy, New Haven, USA for all the support and encouragement.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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