Iranian Agricultural Economics Society (IAES)

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

College of Agriculture, Shiraz University

Abstract

Abstract
This study shows the relationship between environmental pollution and economical growth by Kuznets hypothesis which has drived from provincial data during 1375 - 1385. Carbon monoxide pollution as environmental index and gross national product as economical index have been used. fix effects have been preferred to random effects based on F test for estimation of environmental kuznets curve by panel data. The vald test result through the model evaluation shows the cubic increasingly relation between two environmental and economical indexes. So this study has been done on five provinces: Esfahan, Tehran, Khorasan, Fars and Mazandaran during a decade, that shows increasing pollution due to economical growth. So it is necessary that the government do positive effort to reduction the pollution and effective decides should be provide for environment protection.

Keywords: environmental kuznets curve, Carbon monoxide, gross national product, fix effects by panel data.

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