Reexamining the Empirical Evidence for an Environmental Kuznets Curve

William Harbaugh (), Arik Levinson and David Wilson

No 7711, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper uses an updated and revised panel data set on ambient air pollution in cities world-wide to examine the robustness of the evidence for the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between national income and pollution. We test the sensitivity of the pollution-income relationship to functional forms, to additional covariates, and to changes in the nations, cities, and years sampled. We find that the results are highly sensitive to these changes. We conclude that there is little empirical support for an inverted-U-shaped relationship between several important air pollutants and national income in these data.

JEL-codes: O13 Q25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-05
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Published as William T. Harbaugh & Arik Levinson & David Molloy Wilson, 2002. "Reexamining The Empirical Evidence For An Environmental Kuznets Curve," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 84(3), pages 541-551, August.

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