Environmental Kuznets curve estimation for NO 2 emission: A case of Indian cities

Sinha, Avik; Bhattacharya, Joysankar

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.02.025

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“…In both specifications, direct and spillover effects estimates of technical progress are highly significant at 1% level, except for its spillover effects in the second-order specification. On the other hand, the spillover effects estimates of population (10.8479; 9.8102) in both specifications blow up six times (or more) the magnitudes of their counterparts in all other models, which is rather unreasonable and also inconsistent with results in prior studies on similar themes (e.g., Kang et al [66], and Sinha and Bhattacharya [103]). These results are doubtful.…”

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confidence: 46%

The Impacts of Technical Progress on Sulfur Dioxide Kuznets Curve in China: A Spatial Panel Data Approach

Zhou

2017

Sustainability

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This paper aims to reveal the nexus for sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emission and income, as well as the effects of technical progress on SO 2 emission in China based on environment Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. The spatial panel technique is used in case the coefficient estimates are biased due to the negligence of spatial dependence. With the provincial panel data of China from 2004 to 2014, this is the first research that finds an inverse N-trajectory of the relationship between SO 2 emission and economic growth and confirms the beneficial impacts of technical advancement on SO 2 emission abatement. The empirical results also suggest that the industrial structure change is an important driving force of the SO 2 EKC. In addition, the direct and spillover effects of determinants on sulfur emission are clarified and estimated by a correct approach. Finally, we check the stability of our conclusions on the EKC shape for SO 2 and technical progress effects when controlling for different variables and specifications, through which we find the turning points are sensitive to variables selections.

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Section: Spatial Weight Matrix Specificationscontrasting

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The Impacts of Technical Progress on Sulfur Dioxide Kuznets Curve in China: A Spatial Panel Data Approach

Zhou

2017

Sustainability

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“…Our results indicate the presence of some complex channels through which income could impact the pollution emissions. In the empirical literature, some recent studies confirm the mediating role of institutional quality in the EKC type relationship (see Apergis & Ozturk, 2015;Dutt, 2009;Lau, Choong, & Eng, 2014 See Sinha and Bhattacharya (2017) and Wang, Zhou, Li, and Feng (2016), for an updated survey.…”

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CO₂ emissions and sustainable economic development: New evidence on the role of human capital

Khan

2020

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The empirical literature testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis reports mixed results on the existence of this relationship. This study argues that the effects of economic development on CO 2 emissions are contingent upon the level of human capital. In the beginning, when human capital starts increasing from its low levels, more education accelerates the use of non-renewable resources and increases pollution emissions. However, when certain threshold levels of schooling are traversed, further enrollments reduce CO 2 emissions by promoting environmental awareness and facilitating the use of environment friendly technologies. To test these competing possibilities, we rely upon an innovative threshold technique where incomepollution relationship is piecewise linear with human capital serving as regime switching trigger. Our empirical findings using a large sample of 122 economies over the period 1980 to 2014 support the contingency effects of human capital in the income-environment relationship. These results are also supported by our findings from cross-sectional regressions in the presence of multiplicative interaction term of income and human capital. Based on these results we argue that an increase in education is necessary for reducing the environmental degradation and ensuring the sustainability of economic development.

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“…Subsequent studies have specified the EKC hypothesis by considering different indicators of environmental degradation, e.g. greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution, and change in forest area (Bhattarai and Hammig, 2001;Lee et al, 2016;Sinha and Bhattacharya, 2017;Wang et al, 2016;Wong and Lewis, 2013). Nevertheless, until recent years surprisingly little attention has been given to the application of the EKC to waste generation, i.e.…”

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Kuznets curve in municipal solid waste production: An empirical analysis based on municipal-level panel data from the Lombardy region (Italy)

Ercolano

Gaeta

Ghinoi

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Over the last decade (2001-2010), the European Union has observed a consistent increase in municipal waste (MW) per capita in 18 out of its 28 members (European Environment Agency, 2013). Even if MW only accounts for approximately 10% of total waste generated in the EU, it has a relevant socio-environmental impact (Eurostat, 2016a,b). In this perspective, studies that investigate the determinants of MW generation are particularly valuable since they might inform policies aimed at incentivizing MW reduction, that are very important in the waste management strategy (Beigl et al., 2008). This paper aims to contribute to the literature by empirically addressing a highly debated issue, namely the existence of a link between economic wealth and waste production as modeled by the Waste Kuznets Curve (WKC), Original Articles Kuznets curve in municipal solid waste production: An empirical analysis based on municipal-level panel data from the Lombardy region (Italy)

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Environmental Kuznets curve estimation for NO 2 emission: A case of Indian cities

Cited by 57 publications

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The Impacts of Technical Progress on Sulfur Dioxide Kuznets Curve in China: A Spatial Panel Data Approach

The Impacts of Technical Progress on Sulfur Dioxide Kuznets Curve in China: A Spatial Panel Data Approach

CO₂ emissions and sustainable economic development: New evidence on the role of human capital

Kuznets curve in municipal solid waste production: An empirical analysis based on municipal-level panel data from the Lombardy region (Italy)

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Environmental Kuznets curve estimation for NO 2 emission: A case of Indian cities

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The Impacts of Technical Progress on Sulfur Dioxide Kuznets Curve in China: A Spatial Panel Data Approach

The Impacts of Technical Progress on Sulfur Dioxide Kuznets Curve in China: A Spatial Panel Data Approach

CO2 emissions and sustainable economic development: New evidence on the role of human capital

Kuznets curve in municipal solid waste production: An empirical analysis based on municipal-level panel data from the Lombardy region (Italy)

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