Huang, Jialin; Xing, Jianwei; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
air pollution shock mitigation in a high-stakes healthcare setting: hospital surgery scheduling. Using newly available … inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we track post-surgery survival for over 1 million patients, and document a …. This effect has two special features. First, pollution on the surgery day, rather than exposure prior to hospitalization …