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Causal Impact of Masks, Policies, Behavior on Early Covid-19 Pandemic in the U.S.

2020-05-29 health economics Title + abstract only
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The paper evaluates the dynamic impact of various policies adopted by US states on the growth rates of confirmed Covid-19 cases and deaths as well as social distancing behavior measured by Google Mobility Reports, where we take into consideration peoples voluntarily behavioral response to new information of transmission risks in a causal structural model framework. Our analysis finds that both policies and information on transmission risks are important determinants of Covid-19 cases and deaths ...

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