Reexamining the Empirical Evidence for an Environmental Kuznets Curve

By William T. Harbaugh, Arik Levinson, David M. Wilson. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002

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Nonlinearities and heterogeneity in environmental quality: An empirical analysis of deforestation (2007, background): “Stern and Common (2001) and Harbaugh et al. (2002) show that the relationship between”
The impact of economic growth on CO2 emissions in Azerbaijan (2018, positive): “Moreover, following Kaufmann et al. (1998), Scruggs (1998), Dinda et al. (2000), Harbaugh et al. (2000), Millimet and Stengos (2000) and Lieb (2003) we interpret a U-shaped emission-income relationship as evidence of a N-shaped curve.”
Incentivizing China's Urban Mayors to Mitigate Pollution Externalities: The Role of the Central Government and Public Environmentalism (2014, background): “Columns (1) and (3) are trend 29 Harbaugh et al. (2002) suggest that the EKC is a fragile empirical result, and the pollution–income relationship is quite sensitive to functional forms (the order of the income polynomial function), the variable form, additional covariates, and the sample…”
Is economic growth good or bad for the environment? Empirical evidence from Korea (2013, neutral): “Some studies, however, have found little evidence of the EKC (e.g., Dinda, 2001; Harbaugh et al., 2002; Holtz-Eakin and Shelden, 1995; Iwata et al., 2011; Robers and Grimes, 1997; Soytas et al., 2007); for example, Iwata et al. (2011) show that the EKC hypothesis for CO2 emissions does not hold for…”
The Green Solow model (2010, methodology): “For example, Harbaugh et al. (2002) reconsider Grossman and Krueger’s specificationandfindlittlesupportforanEKCusingnewerupdateddata.SternandCommon (2001) employ a larger and different sulfur dioxide dataset and find no EKC.”
ICT and economic growth : comparing developing, emerging and developed countries (2018, neutral): “18 See e.g. Harbaugh et al. (2002), Durham (2004) and Ardizzi et al. (forthcoming).”
Is Democracy Good for the Environment? (2005, methodology): “He describes the data in detail in Harbaugh et al., 2000.”