Table 7 The effects of relaxed NPIs on online participation.

From: Leaving messages as coproduction: impact of government COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions on citizens’ online participation in China

 

Online participation measured with the number of LLMB messages

Party secretaries

Party secretaries and mayors

Model 17

Model 18

Model 19

Model 20

Relaxed NPIs

0.397***

0.329***

0.429***

0.409***

(0.111)

(0.091)

(0.121)

(0.122)

Local COVID-19 severity variables

N

Y

N

Y

City-fixed effects

Y

Y

Y

Y

Date-fixed effects

Y

Y

Y

Y

R2

0.485

0.491

0.551

0.554

Observations

116,754

116,754

116,022

116,022

Number of cities

319

319

317

317

  1. Because there have been several waves of COVID-19, relaxed NPIs have been implemented several times in some Chinese cities. These cities were excluded from our analysis to control for the effect of previous policy implementation. Standard errors are clustered at the city level and are reported below the coefficients.
  2. ***p < 0.01; **p < 0.05; *p < 0.1.
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