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SUBMITTER: Chen Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3740827 | biostudies-other | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Chen Yuyu Y Ebenstein Avraham A Greenstone Michael M Li Hongbin H
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130708 32
This paper's findings suggest that an arbitrary Chinese policy that greatly increases total suspended particulates (TSPs) 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 based on China's Huai River policy, which provided free winter heating via the provision of coal for boilers in cities north of the Huai River but denied heat to the south. Using a regression discontinui ...[more]