PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Deacon, Robert T.
AU  - Norman, Catherine S.
TI  - Does the Environmental Kuznets Curve Describe How Individual Countries Behave?
AID  - 10.3368/le.82.2.291
DP  - 2006 May 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 291--315
VI  - 82
IP  - 2
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/82/2/291.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/82/2/291.full
SO  - Land Econ2006 May 01; 82
AB  - We examine within-country time series data on income and concentrations of SO2 smoke, and particulates to see if the shapes of pollution-income relationships in individual countries agree qualitatively with predictions of the environmental Kuznets curve. The shapes of these relationships are determined non-parametrically for individual countries using recently available data on air pollution concentrations. For smoke and particulates, the shapes of within-country, pollution-income patterns do not agree with the EKC hypothesis more often than chance would dictate. For SO2 which generally exhibits EKC- consistent pollution-income relationships among wealthier countries, the observed patterns are also consistent with a simpler hypothesis. (JEL Q20, O13)