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. 2020 Aug 4;76(4):635–653. doi: 10.1007/s10640-020-00492-3

Table 3.

RDD estimation

AQI
(1) (2) (3)
Treat * Post − 0.174*** − 0.112** − 0.120**
(0.031) (0.057) (0.057)
Wind speed − 0.011 − 0.011 − 0.012
(0.009) (0.009) (0.009)
Precipitation − 0.013** − 0.013** − 0.013**
(0.006) (0.006) (0.006)
Humidity 0.555*** 0.539*** 0.525***
(0.141) (0.142) (0.143)
Temperature 0.048*** 0.050*** 0.050***
(0.005) (0.005) (0.005)
Time trend No 1st order 2nd order
Fixed effects Yes Yes Yes
Constant 3.706*** 3.678*** 3.696***
(0.116) (0.118) (0.120)
Observations 825 825 825
R2 0.590 0.591 0.591

This table reports the impact of the lockdown policy on air pollution within a small window of locked cities. Column (1) presents the result of Model (1) but focusing on observations within 7 days before and after the issues of intervention policies. Column (2) and (3) presents the results of RDD strategy by adding a linear or quadratic time trend separately. The dependent variable is AQI. The key independent variable is TreatPost

Significance at 10%, 5%, and 1% levels was indicated by *, **, and ***, respectively