Poverty and economic dislocation reduce compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place protocols
By A. Wright, Konstantin Sonin, J. Driscoll, Jarnickae Wilson. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020
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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.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Modeling and Simulation, Sociology and Political Science
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- Misinformation During a Pandemic (2020, unknown): “A number of studies find that areas with higher Republican vote shares practice less social distancing, as measured by cell phone GPS data (Allcott et al., 2020b; Barrios and Hochberg, 2020; Andersen, 2020; Wright et al., 2020).”
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- Economic impact of government interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: International evidence from financial markets (2020, unknown): “(2020) nd Wright et al. (2020) find that compliance with stay-at-home”
- The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “, 2020), beliefs associated with support for the Republican versus Democratic party (Painter and Qiu, 2020), income (Wright et al., 2020), ethnic diversity (Egorov et al.”