New evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 39, 2017, Pages 10384-10389

  Ebenstein, Avraham ^a   Fan, Maoyong ^b   Greenstone, Michael ^c,d   He, Guojun ^e   Zhou, Maigeng ^f  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^f CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Airborne particulate matter; China; Huai River; Life expectancy; Regression discontinuity

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LATITUDE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AIR POLLUTANT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

COAL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHINA; COAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 85029906523     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1616784114     Document Type: Article

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