inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we track post-surgery survival for over 1 million patients, and document a … significant increase of hospital mortality among those who underwent surgeries on days with high particulate matter pollution …, before or after the surgery, is primarily explanatory of the excess mortality. Second, a small but high-risk group - elderly …

Has the expansion in exports affected pollution and health outcomes across different prefectures in China in the two … the rest of the world. We find that the pollution content of export affected pollution and mortality. A one standard … deviation increase in PollutionExportShock increases infant mortality by 2.2 deaths per thousand live births, which is about 13 …

women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing …. By contrast, China has almost no missing unmarried women. We show that 70% of missing unmarried women are of reproductive …

on the sample employed), a pattern that holds for within-firm estimations. The connections-mortality relationship is …

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 …

that transboundary air pollution from China significantly increases mortality and morbidity in South Korea. Using these … in atmospheric science into econometric estimation with microdata on mortality and health. Combining transboundary … particle trajectory data with the universe of individual-level mortality and emergency room visit data in South Korea, we find …

in life expectancy in China over this period. We confirm these mortality effects using micro-data on mortality, other …The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) rolled out in China from 2003-2008 provided insurance to 800 million rural … Chinese. We combine aggregate mortality data with individual survey data, and identify the impact of the NCMS from program …