A household level environmental Kuznets curve? Some recent evidence on transport emissions and income

Adam Cox, Alan Collins, Lee Woods and Neil Ferguson

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 115, issue 2, 187-189

Abstract: This paper uses detailed survey data to show no evidence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for household transport emissions. The evidence shows that richer households still do not choose to internalize the social cost of polluting by vehicle emissions.

Keywords: Air quality; Environmental Kuznets curve; EKC; Household transport; Survey; Vehicle emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 Q50 R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.12.014

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