Lower pollution, longer lives: Life expectancy gains if india reduced particulate matter pollution

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 40-46

  Greenstone, Michael ^a   Nilekani, Janhavi ^b   Pande, Rohini ^b   Ryan, Nicholas ^c   Sudarshan, Anant ^d   Sugathan, Anish ^b  

^a Saieh Hall for Economics   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Chicago's Office   (India)

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EID: 84923486243     PISSN: 00129976     EISSN: 23498846     Source Type: Journal    
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