The Environmental Kuznets Curve Under a New framework: Role of Social Capital in Water Pollution

Hassan Marzoughi, Krishna P. Paudel and Mark J. Schafer

No 35605, 2005 Annual Meeting, February 5-9, 2005, Little Rock, Arkansas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: We advance a case for an inclusion of social capital in the environmental Kuznets curve analysis using highly disaggregated data on water pollution in Louisiana. A social capital index and other variables are used in parametric and spatial panel regression models to explain water pollution dynamics.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005

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