Selected article for: "air quality and control group"

Author: Guojun He; Yuhang Pan; Takanao Tanaka
Title: COVID-19, City Lockdown, and Air Pollution: Evidence from China
  • Document date: 2020_4_1
  • ID: if7av1x8_93
    Snippet: Even in a city that did not have a formal lockdown policy, people's daily lives could still be affected by the counter-virus measures. In fact, in all Chinese cities, the Spring Festival holiday was extended, and people were advised to stay at home when possible, enforce social distancing, and keep good hygiene. We examine this possibility by comparing the air pollution changes between 2019 and 2020 for the same period (January 1 st to March 1 st.....
    Document: Even in a city that did not have a formal lockdown policy, people's daily lives could still be affected by the counter-virus measures. In fact, in all Chinese cities, the Spring Festival holiday was extended, and people were advised to stay at home when possible, enforce social distancing, and keep good hygiene. We examine this possibility by comparing the air pollution changes between 2019 and 2020 for the same period (January 1 st to March 1 st ) within the control group. As the explosion of the COVID-19 cases coincided with China's Spring Festival (SF), we investigate whether the trend of air quality in 2020 differs from the trend in 2019 after the festival, by fitting the following model:

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