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

Table 5.

Spillover effects

Treatment group AQI
Locked cities 2020 Locked cities 2020 Normal cities 2020
Control group Locked cities 2019 Unlocked cities 2020 Normal cities 2019
(1) (2) (3)
Treat * Post − 0.127*** − 0.083***
(0.023) (0.020)
Treat * PostWuhan − 0.054** − 0.038* − 0.114***
(0.023) (0.020) (0.010)
Weather Yes Yes Yes
Fixed effects Yes Yes Yes
Constant 3.880*** 3.846*** 3.906***
(0.036) (0.024) (0.018)
Observations 6602 13,858 20,996
R2 0.528 0.580 0.576

This table reports the spillover effect of the lockdown policy. Column (1) compares the locked cities in 2020 to itself in 2019, column (2) compares the locked cities in 2020 to unlocked cities in 2020, and column (3) compares the unlocked cities in 2020 to itself in 2019. All columns present the regression with both the weather conditions and fixed effects. The dependent variable is AQI. The key independent variable is TreatPostWuhan. Significance at 10%, 5%, and 1% levels was indicated by *, **, and ***, respectively