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DOI | 10.1073/pnas.2008814118 |
Measuring voluntary and policy-induced social distancing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic | |
Youpei Yan; Amyn A. Malik; Jude Bayham; Eli P. Fenichel; Chandra Couzens; Saad B. Omer | |
2021-04-20 | |
发表期刊 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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出版年 | 2021 |
英文摘要 | Staying home and avoiding unnecessary contact is an important part of the effort to contain COVID-19 and limit deaths. Every state in the United States enacted policies to encourage distancing and some mandated staying home. Understanding how these policies interact with individuals’ voluntary responses to the COVID-19 epidemic is a critical initial step in understanding the role of these nonpharmaceutical interventions in transmission dynamics and assessing policy impacts. We use variation in policy responses along with smart device data that measures the amount of time Americans stayed home to disentangle the extent that observed shifts in staying home behavior are induced by policy. We find evidence that stay-at-home orders and voluntary response to locally reported COVID-19 cases and deaths led to behavioral change. For the median county, which implemented a stay-at-home order with about two cases, we find that the response to stay-at-home orders increased time at home as if the county had experienced 29 additional local cases. However, the relative effect of stay-at-home orders was much greater in select counties. On the one hand, the mandate can be viewed as displacing a voluntary response to this rise in cases. On the other hand, policy accelerated the response, which likely helped reduce spread in the early phase of the pandemic. It is important to be able to attribute the relative role of self-interested behavior or policy mandates to understand the limits and opportunities for relying on voluntary behavior as opposed to imposing stay-at-home orders. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/322014 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Youpei Yan,Amyn A. Malik,Jude Bayham,et al. Measuring voluntary and policy-induced social distancing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,2021. |
APA | Youpei Yan,Amyn A. Malik,Jude Bayham,Eli P. Fenichel,Chandra Couzens,&Saad B. Omer.(2021).Measuring voluntary and policy-induced social distancing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
MLA | Youpei Yan,et al."Measuring voluntary and policy-induced social distancing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021). |
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