is that the EKC is examined in the presence of pollution as a by product of consumption activities; also, pollution is a … environment, consumers do not consider directly pollution in the maximization problem and are assumed to choose between two … that substitution of dirty consumption with clean consumption alone is not sufficient to reduce environmental pollution …

economic growth deteriorates the environment through increasing amounts of pollution, the deteriorated environment in turn …

outcomes varies across pollution media: air pollution has a larger impact on health outcomes than either water or land. And …, within air pollution, releases of carcinogens are particularly problematic for infant health outcomes. We do not, however …

The empirical finding of an inverse U-shaped relationship between per capita income and pollution, the so …

environmental quality until the moment that pollution is great enough to make profitable the investment in R&D. After this turning …