Another look at the income elasticity of non-point source air pollutants: A semiparametric approach

Economics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-22

  Roy, Nilanjana ^a   van Kooten, G Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Choice of functional form; Environmental Kuznets curve; Nonparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344600956     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2004.02.016     Document Type: Article

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