Evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River policy

By Yuyu Chen, A. Ebenstein, Michael Greenstone, Hongbin Li. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Envirodevonomics: A Research Agenda for an Emerging Field (2015, background): “…China’s Huai River policy, which provided free coal for winter heating to the north of the river but forbade winter heating with coal in the south (Chen et al. 2013), and Mexico’s appliance buy-back program, which set subsidy levels based on past energy consumption thresholds (Davis et al. 2014).”
• Air Pollution in China: Mapping of Concentrations and Sources (2015, methodology): “2 million deaths/year previously estimated from the Huai River study using Chinese air pollution measurements and mortality data [3,4,33].”
• Beyond Power Calculations (2014, result): “Critics have bemoaned the lack of attention to statistical power in the behavioral sciences for a long time: Notably, for example, Cohen (1988) reviewed a number of surveys of sample size and power over the preceding 25 years and found little evidence of improvements in the apparent power of publish”
• Have traffic restrictions improved air quality? A shock from COVID-19 (2020, background): “In thestudy of evaluating the impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on air quality, Chen et al. (2013) found that the effect of the restriction policy was also affected by the timing and location of plant closures and traffic control.”
• Undermining Authoritarian Innovation: The Power of China’s Industrial Giants (2013, background): “Air pollution is estimated to have caused a five-year gap in life expectancy between heavily polluted north China and the less polluted south (Chen et al. 2013).”
• New evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy (2017, neutral): “Outcome North [1] South [2] Difference in means [3] Adjusted difference (polynomial) [4] Adjusted difference (local linear) [5]”