Surface Water Quality and Infant Mortality in China

HKUST IEMS Working Papers No. 2016-32

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Guojun He, Jeffrey Perloff

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.

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