Socio-Economic Determinants of Environmental Degradation: Empirical Evidence for the Environmental Kuznets Curve

• Autorzy: Ömer Faruk Gültekin , Ramazan Sayar , Yılmaz Onur Ari
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The aim of the paper is to examine socio-economic determinants of environmental degradation. The empirical study employs quantile regression which enables separate predictions for different levels of the dependent variable to be made. This study investigated 62 countries from low, middle and some high income countries for 1995-2019. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) is verified for the aforemented countries in analyzing the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions using quantile regression. The study also revealed that the schooling rate has a pollution-increasing effect. In addition to the reducing effects of trade openness, democracy, and economic freedom variables on environmental degradation, the opposite effect of life expectancy at birth is observed, increasing environmental degradation. In this context, this paper concluded that the EKC hypothesis is not supported. The government should encourage pollution-reducing policies in low and middle income countries. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Degradation of the environment; Economic development; Kuznets curve; Panel data; Quantile regression

PL

Degradacja środowiska; Rozwój gospodarczy; Krzywa Kuznetsa; Dane panelowe; Regresja kwantylowa

• Czasopismo: Economics and Business Review
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: 9 (23)
• Numer: nr 3
• Strony: 66--97

Twórcy

autor

Ömer Faruk Gültekin

• Bayburt University, Turkey

autor

Ramazan Sayar

• Bayburt University, Turkey

autor

Yılmaz Onur Ari

• Bayburt University, Turkey

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2023.3.797