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Does Education Really Matter for Environmental Quality?

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  • Somlanare Romuald KINDA

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This paper investigates the impact of education on the growth of carbon dioxide emissions per capita over the period 1970-2004 in 85 countries. Using panel data and applying GMM-System estimations, our results suggest that education has no impact on the growth of air pollution for the whole sample. Nonetheless, this effect is sensitive to the sampling of countries according to their level of development. Indeed, while the effect remains insignificant in the developing countries sub-sample, education does matter for air pollution growth in the developed countries. More interestingly, when controlling for the quality of political institutions, the positive effect of education on air pollution growth is mitigated in the developed countries while being insignificant in the developing countries.

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  • Somlanare Romuald KINDA, 2010. "Does Education Really Matter for Environmental Quality?," Working Papers 201028, CERDI.
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    1. Does Education Matter for Environmental Quality?
      by Ariel Goldring in Free Market Mojo on 2010-11-28 21:00:38

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    1. Beate Jochimsen & Christian Raffer, 2016. "Herausforderungen bei der Messung von Wohlfahrt," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1595, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    2. Somlanare Romuald KINDA & Pascale COMBES MOTEL & Jean-Louis COMBES, 2014. "Do Environmental Policies Hurt Trade Performance?," Working Papers 201404, CERDI.

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    Keywords

    Carbon dioxide per Capita; Education; Democratic institutions (043);

    JEL classification:

    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling

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