In this research, we examine the effects of PM10 and CO2 air pollutants on infant mortality and life expectancy
at birth, in 60 developing countries during the period 1990e2010 by using unbalanced panel
data and recursive simultaneous equations model. Our results show that the gains are obtained in the
health status through the improvement in socio-economic conditions can be canceled by PM10 and CO2
air pollutants. Therefore, health policies which just focus on socio-economic aspects and ignore the
adverse impacts of the air pollution may do little in efforts directed to improve the current health status
of developing countries.