Searching for an Environmental Kuznets Curve in China's air pollution

China Economic Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 383-397

  Brajer, Victor ^a   Mead, Robert W ^a   Xiao, Feng ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; China; Environmental Kuznets Curve; Epidemiological index

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960962635     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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