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Poverty and economic dislocation reduce compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place protocols

A. Wright, K. Sonin, J. Driscoll, J. Wilson,
2021

Shelter-in-place ordinances were the first wide-spread policy measures aimed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Compliance with shelter-in-place directives is individually costly and requires behavioral changes across diverse sub-populations. Leveraging county-day measures on population movement derived from cellphone location data and the staggered introduction of local mandates, we find that economic factors have played an important role in determining the level of compliance with local shelter-in-place ordinances in the US. Specifically, residents of low income areas complied with shelter-in-place ordinances less than their counterparts in areas with stronger economic endowments, even after accounting for potential confounding factors including partisanship, population density, exposure to recent trade disputes, unemployment, and other factors. Novel results on the local impact of the 2020 CARES Act suggest stimulus transfers that addressed economic dislocation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased social distancing. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.

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  • A. Wright
    Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, United States
  • K. Sonin
    School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego, United States
  • J. Driscoll
    J.P. Morgan, United States
  • J. Wilson
    HSE University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Название журнала
  • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
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  • 180
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  • 544-554
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  • Elsevier B.V.
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  • journal article
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  • CC
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  • Свободная лицензия
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  • scopus