Poel, E. Van de; O'Donnell, O.; Doorslaer, E. Van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … China’s unprecedented urbanization. We construct an index of urbanicity from a broad set of community characteristics and … define urbanization in terms of movements across the distribution of this index. We use difference-in-differences estimators …