The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesizes that the income-pollution rela- tionship has an inverted U shape: pollution increases with income up to a turning point beyond which it decreases. The empirical literature has concentrated on estimation of this relationship at the mean employing...

This paper considers the continuous-treatment case and develops nonparametric estimators for the average dose-response function, the treatment level at which this function is maximized (location of the maximum), and the maximum value achieved by this function (size of the maximum). These...

Several recent papers propose competing theoretical explanations for the empirical observation of an inverted U-shape relationship between enviromental degradation and per-capita income. We proprose the following test of the theory: calibrate a theoretical model to an already developed economy...