Evidence on the impact of Sustained Exposure to Air Pollution on Life Expectancy from China's Huai River Policy

This paper's findings suggest that an arbitrary Chinese policy that greatly increases total suspended particulates (TSP) air pollution is causing the 500 million residents of Northern China to lose more than 2.5 billion life years of life expectancy. The quasi-experimental empirical approach is...

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Main Authors: Chen, Yuyu, Ebenstein, Avraham, Greenstone, Michael, Li, Hongbin
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81438