Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is … urban and rural settings. While prior studies have addressed some aspects of these issues, substantial gaps in knowledge … closing these gaps, we present new evidence on urban-rural differences in air quality and population sensitivity to air …

One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … consumption disparity. The price effect is the dominant factor for the urban-rural consumption disparity. This disparity increased … this increase was mainly from the higher growth rate of urban household consumption. Our results also suggest that rural-urban …

, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution …. Our main measure of welfare is spatially adjusted per capita consumption expenditure. We find that the urban-rural gap … 1993-94 across the entire distribution. We find that difference in educational distribution across urban and rural areas is …

households in rural India but not in urban India. However, there is no evidence that the RSBY reduced per person OOP expenditure … for RSBY households in both rural and urban areas. Conditional on having received medical treatment for major morbidity … significant impact in urban areas. We also find lower expenditure on medicine for a RSBY cardholder patient in rural areas. …

countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the … physical infrastructure are conducive to rapid economic growth commensurate with the projected demographic dividends for India …

This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase …

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health … restricting the sample to rural households, a significant effect of health expenditure on infant mortality emerges, the long run …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely … covariates including rainshocks. I cannot reject the null that income shocks have no effect on mortality in urban households, but … I find that rural infant mortality is counter-cyclical, the elasticity being about -0.46. This is despite the …