Can abatement overcome the conflict between environment and economic growth?

Reconsidering the Impact of the Environment on Long-run Growth when Pollution Influences Health and Agents have a Finite-lifetime

“…In dynamic models where the engine of growth is human capital accumulation, some of them argued that, by affecting health, pollution has a direct impact on long-term performances because it reduces the ability to learn (Gradus and Smulders (1993), van Ewijk and van Wijnbergen (1995), Vellinga (1999), Vellinga and Withagen (2001)). They also demonstrated that environment does not influence long-term accumulation of human capital if this direct impact of pollution on education is not taken into account.…”

Reconsidering the Impact of Environment on Long-Run Growth When Pollution Influences Health and Agents Have Finite-Lifetime

“…Pollution is broadly introduced in the education sector as a simple compoPollution, health and growth with finite lifetimes 3 nent of the human capital depreciation (Gradus and Smulders (1993)) or as a variable which influences the productivity of education activities (van Ewijk and van Wijnbergen (1995)). Microfoundations would be required to clarify the underlying mechanisms.…”

Environmental tax reform and endogenous growth

“…Empirical evidence suggests that pollution causes serious productivity losses both in industrialized countries (see, e.g., Alfsen, Brendemoen and Glomsr~l (1992), Brendemoen and Vennemo (1994), and Ballard and Medema (1993)) and in developing countries (see e.g. Van Ewijk and Van Wijnbergen (1995)). Previous analyses of the double-dividend issue have abstracted from externalities affecting production by modelling the environment as a public consumption good.…”