implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon … dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12 Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) over the period 1981 …–2005. Our results show that in the long-run energy consumption has a positive significant impact on CO2 emissions. More …

, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We … estimate the model's key parameters using administrative data on plant-level production and pollution decisions. We then … pollution changes. Finally, we compare the model-driven decomposition to a statistical decomposition. The model and data suggest …

governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …

relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the … that their contribution to economic growth is limited owing to a lack of financial depth. By contrast, a more efficient … banking sector is found to have accelerated growth …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host …, immigration does not cause unemployment. We also find that, in France, Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom, growth positively … causes immigration, while in any country, immigration does not cause growth …

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth …-country distribution. Extensive sensitivity analyses of cross-country growth regressions generate remarkably stable results across … specifications, time periods, and country samples. In addressing causality, we find, first, significant growth effects of cognitive …

growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective … rate of growth in GDP per capita significantly positively associated with a greater improvement in SWB. In the developing … countries studied here a greater increase in happiness does not accompany more rapid economic growth. These conclusions hold …

well-being over time appeal to the nature of growth itself (from negative side-effects, such as pollution), and to the …This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with …

between changes in subjective well-being and income over time within countries we find economic growth associated with rising …