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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 12, Pages 11962-11974Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-019-04599-z
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Health inequality; Air pollution inequality; China panel data; Theil index; GMM technique; Quantile regression
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China's residents experience unequal exposure to air pollution in different regions, and the corresponding health consequences have increased remarkably. To ensure sustainable development, China should monitor health inequality and its potential determinants. This study empirically examines the health inequalities (represented by perinatal and tuberculosis mortalities) caused by air pollution inequalities (represented by SO2 and NOx emissions) from 31 Chinese provinces in the period 2006 to 2015, using the generalized method of moments (GMM) and quantile regression (QR). The GMM results reveal a strong positive relationship between SO2/NOx emission inequality and tuberculosis mortality inequality. In contrast, the QR results show that perinatal mortality inequality is closely related to emission inequality across all percentiles for SO2 emission and at the 75th percentile for NOx emission. Our findings help policymakers to identify health disparities and be mindful of air pollution inequality as a factor in the elimination of health inequality.
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