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 examines the relationship between income, pollution, and mortality in China from 1991-2012. Using first … mortality rates. The results suggest that while China's unprecedented economic growth over the last two decades is associated …

pollution on mortality in China. We find that a 10 percent decrease in PM₁₀ concentrations reduces the monthly … standardized all-cause mortality rate by 8 percent. Men and women are equally susceptible to air pollution risks. The age groups …

a study that estimates individuals' willingness to pay for cancer risk prevention in three provinces of China. The … reducing the anticipated incidence of cancer mortality by one in the population is 73,000 yuan and an average value of 795 … statistical life, which are mostly based on average willingness-to-pay values of mortality risk reduction. …

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 …