TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bradford,David F.
AU  - Schlieckert,Rebecca
AU  - Shore,Stephen H.
TI  - The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Exploring A Fresh Specification
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8001
PY  - 2000
Y2  - November 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8001
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8001.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David F. Bradford
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013
Tel: 609/258-1856
Fax: 609/258-2809
E-Mail: BRADFORD@PRINCETON.EDU

Stephen Shore
Department of Economics
Littauer 200
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-Mail: sshore@gsu.edu
AB  - Using a new specification, we reanalyze the data on worldwide environmental quality investigated by Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger in a well-known paper on the environmental Kuznets curve (which postulates an inverse U shaped relationship between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In general, we find support for the environmental Kuznets curve for some pollutants and for its rejection in other cases. The fresh specification offers some promise for analysis of such phenomena.
ER  -