Socio-economic determinants of environmental degradation: Empirical evidence for the Environmental Kuznets Curve

Gültekin Ömer Faruk (), Sayar Ramazan () and Ari Yılmaz Onur ()
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Gültekin Ömer Faruk: Bayburt University, Vocational School of Social Sciences, 69000, Bayburt, Turkey
Sayar Ramazan: Bayburt University, International Trade and Business Department, 69000, Bayburt, Turkey
Ari Yılmaz Onur: Bayburt University, International Trade and Business Department, 69000, Bayburt, Turkey

Economics and Business Review, 2023, vol. 9, issue 3, 66-97

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to examine socio-economic determinants of environmental degradation. The empirical study employs quantile regression which enables separate predictions for different levels of the dependent variable to be made. This study investigated 62 countries from low, middle and some high income countries for 1995–2019. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) is verified for the aforemented countries in analyzing the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions using quantile regression. The study also revealed that the schooling rate has a pollution-increasing effect. In addition to the reducing effects of trade openness, democracy, and economic freedom variables on environmental degradation, the opposite effect of life expectancy at birth is observed, increasing environmental degradation. In this context, this paper concluded that the EKC hypothesis is not supported. The government should encourage pollution-reducing policies in low and middle income countries.

Keywords: environmental degredation; economic development; EKC; panel data; quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O13 O44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.18559/ebr.2023.3.797

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