Educational attainment and environmental Kuznets curve in China: an aggregate and disaggregate analysis

Cui, Yuanpei; Wei, Zikun; Xue, Qingwu; Sohail, Sidra

doi:10.1007/s11356-022-19051-y

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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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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: Regression Resultsmentioning

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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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“…The studies on the nexus between educational attainment and sustainable development are limited compared with the ones on the education-growth nexus. However, scholars have broadly examined the effects of educational attainment on environmental sustainability, sustainable awareness, and behaviors of individuals (e.g., see [83][84][85][86][87][88]).…”

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The Role of Financial Sector Development and Educational Attainment in the Achievement of Economic Sustainability: Evidence from BRICS Economies

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2023

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The worldwide serious deteriorations in environmental and social quality have led many countries to follow institutional, social, and economic policies eliminating the negative environmental and social costs of economic growth and development, urbanization, and population growth. This study investigates the influence of financial sector development and educational attainment on economic sustainability in a sample of BRICS economies over the 1995–2020 term through causality and cointegration tests. The results of the causality test find a bidirectional causal interplay between financial development and economic sustainability and a unilateral causal effect from educational attainment on economic sustainability. Furthermore, cointegration analysis unveils a long-term positive influence of financial development and educational attainment on economic sustainability, but the effect of educational attainment on economic sustainability is ascertained to be slightly higher when compared with that of financial sector development. As a result, both educational attainment and financial development with environmental and social measures can be useful instruments to achieve economic sustainability.

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“…Duarte et al [41], Uddin [29], Wang et al [42], Li and Ullah [43] revealed a decreasing effect of education on CO 2 emissions, but Li and Zhou [44] and Zafar et al [45] discovered an increasing effect of education on CO 2 emissions. Furthermore, Khan [46] and Cui et al [47] reached findings incompatible with the EKC hypothesis.…”

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“…Khan [46] analyzed the effect of education on CO 2 emissions in 122 countries for 1980-2014 via threshold regulation and discovered an inverted U-shaped interaction between education and CO 2 emission. Cui et al [47] also researched the influence of education on CO 2 emissions in China for 1991-2019 via the ARDL approach and disclosed an inverted U-shaped interaction between educational indicators and CO 2 emissions. Balaguer and Cantavella [48] analyzed the relationship between education and the environment in Australia for the 1950-2014 period and uncovered the findings in favor of the EKC hypothesis.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the findings of panel-level and country causality analyses mainly support the theoretical expectations. Furthermore, the related empirical literature has generally found a significant influence of education on the environment [29,[41][42][43][44][45][46][47]. Consequently, education is one of the crucial instruments to improve environmental quality.…”

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

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Bayar

Danilina

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Environmental sustainability is one of three pillars of sustainability. However, a significant worldwide deterioration in the environment has been experienced since the Industrial Revolution, but the efforts to protect the environment date back to the 1970s. In this context, many economic and non-economic factors underlying environmental degradation have been investigated until today, but the influence of economic freedom indicators and education on the environment have been relatively less analyzed and the researchers have mainly focused on the influence of economic and institutional variables on the environment. Therefore, this paper investigates the reciprocal interplay among economic freedom indicators, education, and environment in EU member states over the 2000–2018 term by using a causality test with cross-sectional dependency and heterogeneity and taking the research gap into consideration. The causality analysis indicates that market-oriented economic structure and education can be beneficial in combatting environmental degradation.

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Educational attainment and environmental Kuznets curve in China: an aggregate and disaggregate analysis

Cited by 10 publications

References 48 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

The Role of Financial Sector Development and Educational Attainment in the Achievement of Economic Sustainability: Evidence from BRICS Economies

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

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