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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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | en_US |
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Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81438 |