This paper examines how robust economic, political, and demographic variables are related to water and air pollution. Employing Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) for a cross section of up to 74 countries, 33 variables and 3 proxies for air and water pollution over a period from 1980 to 1995 we confirm the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis, highlight the relevance of efficien...

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and related approaches to human-environment problems (e.g., Forest Transition Theory) generally posit an inverted U-shaped relationship between environmental degradation and economic development, frequently utilizing a cross-national approach. After numerous years of research, the overall empirical evidence remains equivocal: case studies that appear to sup...

This paper uses an updated and revised panel data set on ambient air pollution in cities worldwide to examine the robustness of the evidence for the existence of an inverted-U-shaped relationship between national income and pollution. We test the sensitivity of the pollution-income relationship to functional forms, to additional covariates, and to changes in the nations, cities, and years sampl...

The possibility of the existence of environmental Kuznet curve (EKC) has been debated extensively in the literature. The reality of EKC is that, by pursuing growth in income, environmental objectives can be simultaneously accomplished without initiating extra intervention tools. Various studies have been conducted on the existence of EKC without any consensus. Therefore, in this paper, the auth...

The conundrum of how to balance economic growth with transportation carbon abatement has never been more vital for the Belt and Road countries. This study analyzes Transport-Environmental Kuznets Curve nexus explores heterogeneity using fixed-effect estimation panel data from 1981 2020 in 64 findings indicate that there is an N-shaped between transport emissions growth. environmental rebound ef...

Joshua Eastin and Aseem Prakash World Politics / Volume 65 / Issue 01 / January 2013, pp 156 ­ 186 DOI: 10.1017/S0043887112000275, Published online: 11 January 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0043887112000275 How to cite this article: Joshua Eastin and Aseem Prakash (2013). Economic Development and Gender Equality: Is There a Gender Kuznets Curve?. World Polit...