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ArticleAir quality, atmosphere, & health2020

The impacts of COVID-19 measures on global environment and fertility rate: double coincidence.

Muhammad Khalid Anser, Zahid Yousaf, Muhammad Azhar Khan, Xuan Hinh Voo, Abdelmohsen A Nassani, Saad M Alotaibi, Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi Abro, Khalid Zaman

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Article in Air quality, atmosphere, & health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Impact of COVID-19 on fertility and assisted reproductive technology (ART): a systematic review.Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie
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  5. Do environmental pollutants carrier to COVID-19 pandemic? A cross-sectional analysis.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022
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  9. COVID-19 and energy: Influence mechanisms and research methodologies.Sustainable production and consumption · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Muhammad Khalid AnserDepartment of Public Administration, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an, 710000 China.
Zahid YousafHigher Education Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Government College of Management Sciences, Abbottabad, 22060 Pakistan.
Muhammad Azhar KhanDepartment of Economics, University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.
Xuan Hinh VooVASS Academy, Business Department, Helsinki, Finland.
Abdelmohsen A NassaniDepartment of Management, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, P.O. Box 71115, Riyadh, 11587 Saudi Arabia.
Saad M AlotaibiDepartment of Management, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, P.O. Box 71115, Riyadh, 11587 Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi AbroDepartment of Management, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, P.O. Box 71115, Riyadh, 11587 Saudi Arabia.
Khalid ZamanDepartment of Economics, University of Wah, Quaid Avenue, Wah Cantt, Pakistan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study aims to examine the effects of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) measures on global environment and fertility rate by using the data of 1980 to 2019. The results show that communicable diseases including COVID-19 measures decrease carbon emissions and increase the chances of fertility rates in an account of city-wide lockdown. The knowledge spillover substantially decreases carbon emissions, while high energy demand increases carbon emissions. Poverty incidence increases fertility rate in the short-run; however, in the long-run, the result only supported with vulnerable employment and food prices that lead to increase fertility rates worldwide. The study concludes that besides some high negative externalities associated with COVID-19 pandemic in the form of increasing death tolls and rising healthcare costs, the global world should have to know how to direct high mass carbon emissions and population growth through acceptance of preventive measures, which would be helpful to contain coronavirus pandemic at a global scale.

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Carbon emissionsCOVID-19Energy demandFertility rateKnowledge spilloverWorld aggregated data

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PMID32837614
PMCPMC7353826

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