Table 5.
Summary statistics by income quartiles, poorest (1) to wealthiest (4)
Income quartile | ||||
Variable | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Daily rescue events | 0.56 | 0.51 | 0.45 | 0.43 |
Adherence | 0.40 | 0.36 | 0.40 | 0.44 |
Prescribed controller puffs | 3.80 | 2.96 | 3.13 | 3.15 |
Taken controller puffs | 1.47 | 1.05 | 1.35 | 1.37 |
Median distance to monitor, km | 11.93 | 26.67 | 26.73 | 20.05 |
Mean PM2.5 | 8.73 | 8.72 | 8.80 | 8.65 |
Log(PM2.5) regression coefficients | −0.0836 | 0.0948** | 0.193*** | −0.0172 |
(0.0606) | (0.0403) | (0.0598) | (0.0467) |
Prescribed and taken controller puffs are conditional on having been prescribed a controller medication. Their units are in average daily puffs. Each regression coefficient comes from a separate regression on a subset of the data, divided into four quartiles based on household income. Individual, climate region, climate region-by-year, and climate region-by-month fixed effects are included in each regression. Controls, measured as 4-d moving averages, include copollutants, 10° temperature and humidity bins, air pressure, wind speed, and days enrolled in program. Robust SEs, clustered by ID, are shown in parentheses. ***P < 0.01, **P < 0.05.