Contents
Effects of education and political freedom on the environment : cross-country evidences / Yoonae Jo 1
Abstract 1
I. Introduction 2
II. The model 4
II.1. Environment 4
II.2. Optimal pollution 6
II.3. Income and pollution 7
II.4. Education and pollution 9
II.5. Political freedom and equilibrium pollution 9
II.6. More on the model 11
II.7. A specification of the empirical pollution function 12
III. Data 13
IV. Estimation results 15
IV.1. Conventional air pollutants 16
IV.2. Greenhouse gases 18
IV.3. Discussion 19
V. Concluding remarks 20
Appendix : Data sources 21
References 23
[Table] 25