Search Results - subject:"Kuznets’ curve"

Economic growth and environmental degradation : a critique of the environmental Kuznets curve

Stern, David I.; Common, Michael S.; Barbier, Edward - 1994

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Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Testable Empirical Implications of the Growth and Environment Literature

Israel, Debra; Levinson, Arik - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 3 (2004) 1, pp. 1-29

Several different theoretical models of economic growth and environmental quality each generate inverse-U-shaped pollution-income paths, or "environmental Kuznets curves." They rely on different assumptions to generate the reversal of pollution trends, with correspondingly different policy...

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Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Testable Empirical Implications of the Growth and Environment Literature

Israel, Debra; Levinson, Arik - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 3 (2004) 1, pp. 1254-1254

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DOES ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNET’S CURVE EXIST FOR INDOOR AIR POLLUTION? EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN HOUSEHOLD LEVEL DATA

Kumar, K. S. Kavi; Viswanathan, Brinda - Madras School of Economics - 2004

Existence of Environmental Kuznet’s Curve (EKC) is an empirical issue to analyze as evidence from the literature has been mixed. This study focuses on indoor air pollution generated from the use of fuels for cooking services to check for validity of EKC. Using household level data from three...

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The medium and long term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d<92>Ivoire A dynamic microsimulation study

Grimm, Michael - EconWPA - 2004

I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d'Ivoire in the medium and long term. The simulations are performed in order to replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in this country. Various hypotheses...

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The environmental Kuznets curve : evidence from time series data for Germany

Egli, Hannes - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2004

In recent years, extensive literature on the Environmental Kuznets Curve lead- ing to optimistic policy conclusions has …

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The Carbon Kuznets Curve: A Cloudy Picture Emitted by Bad Econometrics?

Wagner, Martin; Müller-Fürstenberger, Georg - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2004

, which we exemplify with the particular example of the Carbon Kuznets Curve (CKC). The Carbon Kuznets hypothesis postulates … transformations of integrated regressors in the Kuznets curve, which usually contains GDP and its square is problematic. This stems … (panel) unit root and cointegration techniques, widely used by now in the Kuznets curve literature, cannot be applied …

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Endowments, preferences, technologies and abatement: growth-environment microfoundations

Pfaff, Alexander; Chaudhuri, Shubham; Nye, Howard L.M. - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 4 (2004) 4, pp. 209-228

to abate, and further this condition is sufficient for an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for a wide range of abatement …

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Material flow accounting of Spain

SÃlvia Canellas; Gonzalez, Ana Citlalic; Puig, Ignasi; … - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 4 (2004) 4, pp. 229-241

Material throughput is a means of measuring the so-called social metabolism, or physical dimensions of a society's consumption, and can be taken as an indirect and approximate indicator of sustainability. Material flow accounting can be used to test the dematerialisation hypothesis, the idea...

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A Dynamic Model of the Environmental Kuznets Curve : Turning Point and Public Poliy

Egli, Hannes; Steger, Thomas M. - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2004

We set up a simple dynamic macroeconomic model with (i) polluting consump- tion and a preference for a clean environment, (ii) increasing returns in abate- ment giving rise to an EKC and (iii) sustained growth resulting from a linear final-output technology. The model captures two sorts of...

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