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- Title
Do Stay-at-Home Orders Cause People to Stay at Home? Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Consumer Behavior.
- Authors
Alexander, Diane; Karger, Ezra
- Abstract
We link the county-level rollout of stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic to anonymized cell phone records and consumer spending data. We document three patterns. First, stay-at-home orders caused people to stay home: county-level measures of mobility declined 6% to 7% within two days of when the stay-at-home order went into effect. Second, stay-at-home orders caused large reductions in spending in sectors associated with mobility: small businesses and large retail chains. Third, we estimate fairly uniform responses to stay-at-home orders across the country; effects do not vary by county-level income, political leanings, or urban/rural status.
- Subjects
STAY-at-home orders; CONSUMER behavior; COVID-19 pandemic; CHAIN stores; CONSUMPTION (Economics)
- Publication
Review of Economics & Statistics, 2023, Vol 105, Issue 4, p1017
- ISSN
0034-6535
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/rest_a_01108