TY - JOUR
T1 - The consequences of industrialization
T2 - Evidence from water pollution and digestive cancers in China
AU - Ebenstein, Avraham
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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%. The analysis rules out other potential explanations such as smoking rates, dietary patterns, and air pollution. I estimate that doubling China's levy rates forwastewater dumpingwould save roughly 17,000 lives per year but require an additional $500 million in annual spending on wastewater treatment.
AB - 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%. The analysis rules out other potential explanations such as smoking rates, dietary patterns, and air pollution. I estimate that doubling China's levy rates forwastewater dumpingwould save roughly 17,000 lives per year but require an additional $500 million in annual spending on wastewater treatment.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858599639&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1162/REST_a_00150
DO - 10.1162/REST_a_00150
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AN - SCOPUS:84858599639
SN - 0034-6535
VL - 94
SP - 186
EP - 201
JO - Review of Economics and Statistics
JF - Review of Economics and Statistics
IS - 1
ER -
