, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade … relationship between international trade, economic growth and the environment? How can this evidence help us evaluate ongoing …

between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …

relationship has been called the out a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of the pollution …

This paper reviews both theory and empirical work on economic growth and the environment. We develop four simple growth … potentially refutable predictions on abatement costs, pollution levels, or emission intensities …

Fears that globalization necessarily hurts the environment are not well-founded. A survey reveals little statistical … measures of air pollution such as SO2 concentrations. Perceptions that WTO panel rulings have interfered with the ability of … Methods (PPMs), provided the measures do not discriminate among producer countries. People care about both the environment and …

: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the state of the oxygen regime in river basins; concentrations of fecal …

What is the effect of trade on a country's environment, for a given level of GDP? Some have observed an apparent … measures of air pollution. Statistical significance is lacking for Particulate Matter, but is moderate for NO2, and high for SO … evidence that trade has the detrimental effect on the environment that the race-to-the-bottom theory would lead one to expect …

between the environment and individual well-being. First, in explicitly recognizing how optimizing behavior, particularly in … 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 …

model, which we dub the Green Solow', generates an EKC relationship between both the flow of pollution emissions and income …

Empirical research on the determinants of economic growth has typically neglected the influence of religion. To fill … are the dependent variables. The instruments are dummy variables for the presence of state religion and for regulation of … the religion market, an indicator of religious pluralism, and the composition of religions. We find that economic growth …