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New evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy
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Significance: An estimated 4.5 billion people are currently exposed to particulate matter (PM) levels at least twice the concentration that the WHO considers safe. Existing evidence linking health to air pollution is largely based on populations exposed to only modest levels of PM and almost entirely composed of observational studies, which are likely to confound air pollution with other unobserved determinants of health. This study uses quasiexperimental variation in particulate matter smaller than 10 μm (PM 10 ) generated by an arbitrary Chinese policy to find that a 10-μg/m 3 increase in PM 10 reduces life expectancy by 0.64 years. The estimates imply that bringing all of China into compliance with its Class I standards for PM 10 would save 3.7 billion life-years.
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- Ebenstein, A., Fan, M., Greenstone, M., He, G., & Zhou, M.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2017-09-11
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- 39
- Pages
- 10384-10389
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W4250171390
- Cited by
- 741
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 25.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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