Surface Water Quality and Infant Mortality in China

Guojun He and Jeffrey Perloff

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, vol. 65, issue 1, 119 - 139

Abstract: Surface water pollution has a significant, nonmonotonic 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--in the absence of good information on water quality--are the most dangerous.

Date: 2016
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