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inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we track post-surgery survival for over 1 million patients, and document a …
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We examine the introduction of automatic air pollution monitoring, which is a central feature of China's "war on …
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Migration and pollution are two defining features of China's impressive growth performance over the last 30 years. In …
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We introduce a new methodology to detect and measure economic activity using geospatial data and apply it to steel production, a major industrial pollution source worldwide. Combining plant output data with geospatial data, such as ambient air pollutants, nighttime lights, and temperature, we...
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pollution distorts individuals' fertility behaviors in China. We document a robust pattern in which increased pollution over …
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that transboundary air pollution from China significantly increases mortality and morbidity in South Korea. Using these … benefit. Finally, we examine China's strategic pollution reductions and provide their implications for the potential Coasian …
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We relate household saving to pension reform, to explain the high household saving rates in urban China from a new … on household saving, and obtain a significant offset effect of pension wealth on household saving. Our estimations show … that pension reform boosted the household saving rate in 1999 by about 6 percentage points for cohort aged 25-29 and by …
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aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … lower household saving rates in Japan and China …We present a model of household life-cycle saving decisions in order to quantify the impact of demographic changes on …
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