ArticleEmpirical economics2022
Economic impact payment, human mobility and COVID-19 mitigation in the USA.
Article in Empirical economics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Environmental justice and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from New York State.Journal of environmental economics and management · 2021Article
- Vaccination through time: from the first smallpox vaccine to current vaccination campaigns against the COVID-19 pandemic.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2021Article
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Abstract
This paper studies the effect of the economic impact payment (EIP) on individual contributions to COVID-19 mitigation efforts in the USA, where the mitigation efforts are measured by the reduction of daily human mobility. I empirically estimate the effect of the EIP in April 2020 and use cellphone GPS data of 45 million smartphone devices as a proxy for human mobility across 216,069 Census Block Groups. The results show that when receiving the EIP, households significantly increased "Median Home Dwell Time" by an average of 3-5% (about 26-45 min). The paper highlights this unintended effect of the EIP, namely, that in addition to providing economic assistance, the EIP also helped increase individual contributions to mitigation efforts that slowed COVID-19 virus transmission in early 2020. Supplementary Information: The online version supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00181-021-02117-0.
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