Desbordes, Rodolphe; Verardi, Vincenzo - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 2, pp. 258-261
Using Baltagi and Li (2002)’s semi-parametric fixed effects regression estimator, we investigate the existence of an aggregate ‘Kuznets curve’ in a sample of 113 countries over the 1960–2000 period. Our results show that misspecification of the functional form in a panel model with...
