TY  - JOUR
AU  - Andreoni,James
AU  - Levinson,Arik
TI  - The Simple Analytics of the Environmental Kuznets Curve
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6739
PY  - 1998
Y2  - September 1998
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6739
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6739.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James Andreoni
Department of Economics
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0508
Tel: 858/534-3832
Fax: 858/534-7040
E-Mail: andreoni@ucsd.edu

Arik Levinson
Department of Economics ICC 571
Georgetown University
3700 O St., NW
Washington, DC 20057
Tel: 202/687-5571
Fax: 202/687-6102
E-Mail: aml6@georgetown.edu
AB  - Evidence suggests that some pollutants follow an inverse-U-shaped pattern relative to countries' incomes.  This relationship has been called the out a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of the pollution-income relationship.  We show that the environmental Kuznets curve can be derived directly from the technological link between consumption of a desired good and abatement of its  undesirable byproduct.  The inverse-U shape does not depend on the dynamics of growth, political institutions, or even externalities, and can be consistent with a decentralized economy as well as a Pareto efficient policy.
ER  -