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Economic, Demographic and Political Determinants of Pollution Reassessed: A Sensitivity Analysis

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  • Martin Gassebner
  • Michael Lamla
  • Jan-Egbert Sturm

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Recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution, i.e. do not depend upon the conditioning information set. For this, we apply Extreme Bound Analysis (EBA) on a panel of 208 countries covering the period 1960–2001. We find supportive evidence on the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve. Furthermore, mainly demographic variables and variables capturing the economic structure of a country contribute in explaining air and water pollution.

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Paper provided by CESifo Group Munich in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number 1699.

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Keywords: pollution; environment; sensitivity analysis; environmental Kuznets curve;

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