Gruber, Jonathan; Lin, Mengyun; Yi, Junjian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Chinese. We combine aggregate mortality data with individual survey data, and identify the impact of the NCMS from program … mortality, with the program saving more than one million lives per year at its peak, and explaining 78% of the entire increase … in life expectancy in China over this period. We confirm these mortality effects using micro-data on mortality, other …