@article{Stern:249523,
      recid = {249523},
      author = {Stern, David I. and van Dijk, Jeremy},
      title = {Economic growth and global particulate pollution  concentrations},
      address = {2016-02},
      number = {450-2016-34052},
      pages = {23},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {Though the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) was  originally developed to model the ambient concentrations of  pollutants, most subsequent applications focused on  pollution emissions. Yet, previous research suggests that  it is more likely that economic growth could eventually  reduce the concentrations of local pollutants than  emissions. We examine the role of income, convergence, and  time related factors in explaining changes in PM2.5  pollution in a global panel of 158 countries between 1990  and 2010. We find that economic growth has positive but  relatively small effects, time effects are also small but  larger in wealthier and formerly centrally planned  economies, and, for our main dataset, convergence effects  are small and not statistically significant. There is no  in-sample income turning point for regressions that include  both the convergence variables and a set of control  variables.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/249523},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.249523},
}