Surface Water Quality and Infant Mortality in China

Guojun He and Jeffrey Perloff

No 2016-32, HKUST IEMS Working Paper Series from HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Abstract: Surface water pollution has a significant, non-monotonic effect on the infant mortality rate in China. As surface water quality deteriorates, the infant mortality rate first increases and then decreases. Thus, moderate levels of pollution are the most dangerous.

Keywords: water quality; water pollution; infant mortality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2016-06, Revised 2016-06
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