Economic Freedom, Education and CO2 Emissions: A Causality Analysis for EU Member States

Sart, Gamze; Bayar, Yılmaz; Danilina, Marina; Sezgin, Funda Hatice

doi:10.3390/ijerph19138061

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“…As a result, the outcomes of panel-level and country causality studies primarily corroborate theoretical predictions. Furthermore, the associated empirical research has typically indicated that education significantly impacts the environment (Balaguer & Cantavella, 2018;Li et al, 2021;Cui et al, 2022;Sart et al, Population expansion has been identified as the primary cause of rising CO 2 emissions, raising energy consumption (Luo et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are various processes via which EDU might positively or negatively impact CO 2 . The recent research of (Sart et al, 2022), observed the relationship of economic freedom, education and CO 2 in the context of EU members for 2000-2018, the causality analysis revealed that financial freedom and education can be favorable to mitigating environmental deterioration and increase environmental quality in the panel region. Similarly, the study of (Mehmood, 2022), utilized CS-ARDL for south Asian region for 1990-2020, and investigated that education expenditure will decrease the CO 2 emissions in the south Asian area.…”

Section: The Education and Environmental Deteriorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental degradation in terms of health expenditure, education and economic growth. Evidence of novel approach

Ali²

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Physical education benefits health and the environment because the world takes long-term steps to stop environmental degradation and its effects. Therefore, the present study examined the impact of health expenditure, education, economic growth, and population on environmental degradation in seven emerging economies from 2000 to 2019. The cross-sectional dependency (CSD) reflected the panel nations’ CSD, whereas the second-generation panel unit root test confirmed all indicators’ stationarity at first difference. Thus, the second-generation cointegration approach identified a long-term equation among the CO2, health expenditure, education, economic growth and population. The long-run empirical estimations derived from the PFMLOS and PDOLS method emphasized that education increases the region’s environmental sustainability and decreases CO2 emissions. Conversely, health expenditure, economic growth, and population increase CO2 emissions and reduce environmental quality in the E-7 bloc. Moreover, our findings are resilient to alternative measures by AMG and CCEMG, which might help policymakers develop long- and short-term initiatives for environmental protection. The study suggests adopting physical education and physical health activities to curb environmental degradation in the panel region.

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Section: The Education and Environmental Deteriorationmentioning

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Environmental degradation in terms of health expenditure, education and economic growth. Evidence of novel approach

Ali²

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Bjørnskov (2020) comes to a similar conclusion, but here the EFI indicator is the only institutional determinant. Sart, Bayar, Danilina, and Sezgin (2022) and Setyadharma, Nikensari, Oktavilia, and Wahyuningrum (2021) confirm these findings, but their analysis is restricted to EU (European Union) members and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) member states, respectively. De Soysa (2022) finds, that more economic freedom leads to lower emissions intensity, measured in terms of carbon dioxide emissions per dollar of gross domestic product produced.…”

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confidence: 67%

Institutional determinants of environmental performance

Reichel¹

2023

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This note examines the impact of three institutional factors on environmental performance and carbon intensity of gross domestic product (GDP) for a cross-section sample of 154 countries. The institutional factors are democratization, market orientation of the economy, and prevalence of corruption. Per capita income is generally used as a control variable. As the distribution of some of the variables is highly skewed, we apply several robust regression methods, in comparison to ordinary least squares (OLS). Results differ depending on the estimation method, but generally per capita income is negatively related to carbon intensity but positively correlated with environmental performance. The higher the degree of democratization, the better the state of the environment and the lower the carbon intensity. Market orientation of the economy is ambiguous at first sight, but if an interaction variable with the democracy index is applied, the effect is quite large and highly significant. In this case, the impact of the corruption variable fades. Sensitivity analyses reveal, that introducing a democratic market economy is the most promising strategy to promote environmental performance as well as to cut the carbon emission intensity.

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“…Human-induced production and consumption activities to meet societal needs lead to overexploitation and depletion of resources, atmospheric degradation, land, soil, and water degradation, air, soil, and water pollution, and change ecosystems by creating environmental pressures (Rudolph and Figge, 2017;Sart et al, 2022). This situation negatively affects many economic and social variables such as human health, biodiversity, disasters, and sustainable development, as well as problems such as environmental degradation, global warming, and climate change that all countries in the world are face (Alola et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Whether economic freedom has a positive or negative effect on environmental performance depends on which of these factors is dominant (Carlsson and Lundström, 2001;Sart et al, 2022). There are several simpli ed hypotheses about the interaction of environmental performance and economic freedom.…”

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Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Renewable Energy Consumption and the Load Capacity Factor: Evidence from OECD Countries with Panel Quantile Regression Analysis

İMAMOĞLU,

Özdemir

2023

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In recent years, countries' efforts to increase their economic freedom have raised the question of how freedom will affect the environment. Therefore, in this study, the relationship between economic freedom, economic growth, renewable energy consumption, and load capacity factor (LCF) in OECD countries is analyzed by panel quantile regression analysis with annual data sets for 1996-2018. According to the findings obtained from quantile regression analysis, the LCC hypothesis is valid in OECD countries. Renewable energy consumption positively affects LCF, but this effect is less in high quantiles than in low quantiles. Moreover, economic freedom's effect on LCF is positive and significant in all quantiles. However, there are substantial differences in the coefficients by percentiles, and the impact of economic freedom is less in countries with low LCF than in countries with high LCF. These findings suggest that a higher level of economic freedom will increase the load capacity factor and contribute to improving environmental quality.

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Economic Freedom, Education and CO2 Emissions: A Causality Analysis for EU Member States

Cited by 16 publications

References 51 publications

Environmental degradation in terms of health expenditure, education and economic growth. Evidence of novel approach

Environmental degradation in terms of health expenditure, education and economic growth. Evidence of novel approach

Institutional determinants of environmental performance

Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Renewable Energy Consumption and the Load Capacity Factor: Evidence from OECD Countries with Panel Quantile Regression Analysis

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