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between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …
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model, which we dub the Green Solow', generates an EKC relationship between both the flow of pollution emissions and income … technological progress in abatement, the EKC is a necessary by product of convergence to a sustainable growth path. Our amended … per capita, and the stock of environmental quality and income per capita. The resulting EKC may be humped shaped or …
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relationship has been called the out a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of the pollution …
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This paper offers a thesis as to why the US overtook the UK and other European countries in the 20th century in both aggregate and per-capita GDP, as a case study of recent models of endogenous growth where human capital is the "engine of growth". The conjecture is that the ascendancy of the US...
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potentially refutable predictions on abatement costs, pollution levels, or emission intensities …
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, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …
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the form of residential sorting, can lead to non-random assignment of pollution, economists have employed a wide range of … quasi-experimental techniques to develop causal estimates of the effect of pollution. Second, economic research has placed a … biological and behavioral effects of pollution and for proper welfare calculations. Lastly, economic research has expanded the …
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measures of air pollution such as SO2 concentrations. Perceptions that WTO panel rulings have interfered with the ability of …
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We study a growth model with an environmental asset which is a source of utility and an input to consumption and production. The stock of this asset follows its own ecological dynamics, which are affected by economic activity. We study the implications of an approach to ranking sequences of...
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This paper examines theory and evidence from recent studies into the contributions to economic growth of expenditure on education and on research and development. Investment in human capital has fundamentally different economic attributes to physical investment - exhibiting complementarity,...
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