Does Education matter for convergence in carbon dioxide per capita emissions?
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Kinda, Somlanaré Romuald
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Recent papers have debated the existence of convergence in carbon dioxide per capita. This paper improves on existing work and examines the importance of education on the convergence in carbon dioxide per capita emissions over the period 1970-2004 for 85 countries. We use panel data and apply GMM-System. This rigorous approach takes into account observed and unobserved heterogeneity of countries and solves the endogeneity of some variables. Our results suggest a divergence in carbon dioxide per capita emissions and education doesn’t matter. Contrary to common intuition, in developing countries there is no convergence and education doesn’t matter for carbon dioxide growth. In developed countries, education favours convergence in carbon dioxide per capita only if it interacts with good political institutions. Without interaction to political institutions, education increases carbon dioxide per capita growth and handicaps carbon dioxide per capita convergence.
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2009-10-08
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