Abstract:
This paper, by matching the sewage discharge data of city level and personal health status data, using Grossman model examines the effect of sewage discharge for mid-aged and elderly health in rural areas. We found that sewage discharge will significantly increase the probability of illness and reduce the health status of the mid-aged and elderly in rural areas. Further found that: these sewage discharge has a great impact on the poor economic conditions, lower education level and there is no significant difference on the impact of different age groups. This paper also found the main reason of such problem is sewage contaminating people's drinking water source. By estimating the healthy pricing of sewage discharge, we found that residents willing to reduce ￥87.5 income per year. Finally, through using the instrumental variable and solving endogenous problem, the results is still strong.
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