He, Guojun; Fan, Maoyong; Zhou, Maigeng - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), … - 2015
By exploiting exogenous variation in air quality during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, we estimate the effect of air pollution on mortality in China. We find that a 10-μg/m^3 (roughly 10%) decrease in PM_10 concentrations reduces monthly standardized all-cause mortality by 6.63%. The...