Table 3.
Wind and PM 2.5 IV — Confirmed COVID-19 cases .
(1) | (2) | (3) | |
---|---|---|---|
Weighted PM 2.5 | 0.146** | 0.128** | 0.133** |
(0.0684) | (0.0647) | (0.0659) | |
F Stat | 14.28 | 14.89 | 15.13 |
Dep Var Mean | 7.875 | 7.882 | 7.882 |
Pct change mean | 1.849 | 1.627 | 1.689 |
Controls | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
County & State-by-week FEs | ✓ | ||
County and MSA-by-week FEs | ✓ | ||
County and CBSA-by-week FEs | ✓ | ||
Observations | 97,885 | 97,783 | 97,740 |
, , . Standard errors clustered at the county level in parentheses. Outcomes are daily case incidence per 100,000 population. Controls include state-level and county-level policy adoption, wind speed, minimum and maximum daily temperature, precipitation, prior two-week social distancing behavior, day-of-week, and two lagged wind direction-by-monitor cluster interactions. Displayed output of a two-stage least squares regression model with county and state-by-week, MSA-by-week, or CBSA-by-week fixed effects in which wind direction and air quality monitor cluster interactions are used to predict PM 2.5 levels in a county on a given day. F-statistics of the relevance test are computed assuming first-stage standard errors are not serially correlated.