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Social connections with COVID-19-affected areas increase compliance with mobility restrictions.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
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- Shifting Mobility Behaviors in Unprecedented Times: A Multigroup MIMIC Model Investigating Intentions to Use On-Demand Ride Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Transportation research record · 2023Article
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- Why do democracies respond differently to COVID-19? A comparison of the United States and South Korea.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Education and COVID-19 excess mortality.Economics and human biology · 2022Article
- Exploring the spatial disparity of home-dwelling time patterns in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic via Bayesian inference.Transactions in GIS : TG · 2022Article
- Estimating the effect of mobility on SARS-CoV-2 transmission during the first and second wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, Switzerland, March to December 2020.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2022Article
- Nursing home quality, COVID-19 deaths, and excess mortality.Journal of health economics · 2022Article
- An Instagram Hashtag Fostering Science Education of Vulnerable Groups during the Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Effects of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 Mortality: A Generalized Synthetic Control Approach Across 169 Countries.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook.Journal of urban economics · 2022Article
- How do mobility restrictions and social distancing during COVID-19 affect oil price?Journal of statistical theory and practice · 2022Article
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- Utility of Facebook's Social Connectedness Index in Modeling COVID-19 Spread: Exponential Random Graph Modeling Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2021Article
- Anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces willingness to socially distance.Journal of health economics · 2021Article
- Lockdowns lose one third of their impact on mobility in a month.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
We study the role of social connections in compliance of U.S. households with mobility restrictions imposed in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, using aggregated and anonymized Facebook data on social connections and mobile phone data for measuring social distancing at the county level. Relative to the average restriction efficacy, a county with one-SD more social connections with China and Italy-the first countries with major COVID-19 outbreaks-has a nearly 50% higher compliance with mobility restrictions. By contrast, social connections of counties with less-educated populations, a higher Trump vote share, and a higher fraction of climate change deniers show decreased compliance with mobility restrictions. Our analysis suggests that social connections are conduits of information about the pandemic and an economically important factor affecting compliance with, and impact of, mobility restrictions.
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