Determinants of pollution: What do we really know?

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The recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution. We apply Extreme Bound Analysis (EBA) on a panel of up to 120 countries covering the period 1960-2001. We find supportive evidence of the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve for water pollution. Furthermore, mainly variables capturing the economic structure of a country affect air and water pollution.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbergpq029
JournalOxford Economic Papers
Volume63
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)568-595
Number of pages28
ISSN0030-7653
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.07.2011
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Economics - Panel Data models, Spatio-temporal Models, F59-Other, O13-Agriculture, Natural Resources, energy, other primary Products, Air polution, Noise, Hazardous Waste, solid Waste, recycling

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