The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

Manuscript prepared for presentation at "The Economics of Population Aging in China and India", a conference sponsored jointly by the Program on the Global Demography of Aging, the South Asia Initiative, the Asia Center, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Harvard China Fund, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (all at Harvard University), and the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (at Stanford University). We would like to thank Andrew Mason and the participants of the Economics of Population Aging in China and India conference for valuable comments and suggestions. Lauren Gurfein and Benjamin Osher provided helpful assistance. Funding source: This study was funded in part by the Program on the Global Demography of Aging, which receives funding from the National Institute on Aging, Grant No. 1 P30 AG024409-06. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.