已有 4721 次阅读2012-4-23 22:05|系统分类:科研笔记|quality, potential, country, single, variation
China’s rapid industrialization has led to a severe deterioration in water quality in the country’s lakes and rivers. By exploiting variation in pollution across China’s river basins, I estimate
that a deterioration of water quality by a single grade (on a six-grade scale) increases the digestive cancer death rate by 9.7 percent. The analysis rules out other potential explanations such
as smoking rates, dietary patterns, and air pollution. I estimate that doubling China’s levy rates
for wastewater dumping would save roughly 17,000 lives per year but require an additional
500 million dollars in annual spending on wastewater treatment.
A. Ebenstein. The Consequences of Industrialization: Evidence from Water Pollution and Digestive Cancers in China. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012(0)