Grossman, Gene M; Krueger, Alan B - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 110 (1995) 2, pp. 353-77
The authors examine the reduced-form relationship between per capita income and various environmental indicators. Their … contamination of river basins, and contamination of river basins by heavy metals. The authors find no evidence that environmental … quality deteriorates steadily with economic growth. Rather, for most indicators, economic growth brings an initial phase of …