The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Exploring a Fresh Specification

Bradford, David F.; Fender, Rebecca; Shore, Stephen H.

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Exploring a Fresh Specification

NBER Working Paper No. w8001

40 Pages Posted: 13 Nov 2000 Last revised: 13 Nov 2022

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David F. Bradford

Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School; NBER; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Stephen H. Shore

Georgia State University

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Date Written: November 2000

Abstract

Using a new specification, we reanalyze the data on worldwide environmental quality investigated by Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger in a well-known paper on the environmental Kuznets curve (which postulates an inverse U shaped relationship between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In general, we find support for the environmental Kuznets curve for some pollutants and for its rejection in other cases. The fresh specification offers some promise for analysis of such phenomena.

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Bradford, David F. and Fender, Rebecca and Shore, Stephen H., The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Exploring a Fresh Specification (November 2000). NBER Working Paper No. w8001, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=249555