@article {869,
	title = {Water Pollution and Digestive Cancers in China},
	journal = {Review of Economics and Statistics},
	volume = {94},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {186-201},
	abstract = {China{\textquoteright}s rapid industrialization has led to a severe deterioration in water quality in the country{\textquoteright}s lakes and rivers. By exploiting variation in pollution across China{\textquoteright}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{\textquoteright}s levy rates for wastewater dumping would save roughly 17,000 lives per year but require an additional $500 million in annual spending on wastewater treatment.},
	author = {Avraham Ebenstein}
}
