Self-protection investment exacerbates air pollution exposure inequality in urban China

C Sun, ME Kahn, S Zheng - Ecological economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Urban China's high level of ambient air pollution lowers quality of life and raises mortality
risk. China's wealthy can purchase private products such as portable room air filters that …

Income inequality and CO2 emissions in belt and road initiative countries: the role of democracy

W You, Y Li, P Guo, Y Guo - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
This paper investigates the interaction effects of income inequality and democracy on CO 2
emissions. The spatial panel model, which accounts for the spatial spillover effects across …

“The earth is your mosque”: narrative perspectives of environmental health and education in the Holy Quran

BH Aboul-Enein - Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Philosophical and ideological arguments have been proposed in support of the importance
of the environment and environmental health. An argument that has been given recent …

Air pollution and income distribution: evidence from Chinese provincial panel data

A Zhou, J Li - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021 - Springer
In recent years, air pollution has caused an increasing number of problems in China.
Individual health and labour productivity, which are affected by air pollution may affect …

Elections and environmental quality

N Stef, S Ben Jabeur - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2023 - Springer
This paper investigates how political elections influence environmental quality. From this
perspective, we rely on the reward-punishment hypothesis (RPH) developed by democratic …

Mobility as a response to environmental hazards in the urban context: A new perspective on mobility and inequality

C Xia, AGO Yeh - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
In view of the increasing occurrence of urban environmental hazards which can threaten our
quality of life and health outcomes, how citizens react to adverse environmental impacts is of …

Self-protection investment exacerbates air pollution exposure inequality in urban China

S Zheng, C Sun, ME Kahn - 2015 - nber.org
Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises
mortality risk. China's wealthy have the purchasing power to purchase private products such …

Democracy, inequality and the environment when citizens can mitigate health consequences of pollution privately or act collectively

S Bernard, L Hotte, SL Winer - European Journal of Political Economy, 2014 - Elsevier
We study the political economy of the environment in autocratic, weak and strong
democracies when individuals can mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution …

The democracy and environment quality in selected countries: An application of panel data

S Ghodrati, J Harati, A Nazari - Iranian Economic Review, 2018 - ier.ut.ac.ir
This study investigates the relationship between quality of environment and democracy
among different countries over the period of 2002-2012. Democracy and accumulated …

Votando por el ambiente: La importancia de la democracia y educación en América Latina

DG Callejas - Revista de Economía del Caribe, 2015 - rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co
This study found that doubling the level of democracy in Latin America reduces CO2
emissions per capita by up to 6%. This relationship is estimated by using a fixed effects …