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Private Choices in Public Health: Endogenous Behavioral Responses to Pandemic Risk

2025-11-10 health economics Title + abstract only
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Epidemic control depends not only on policy mandates but also on endogenous behavioral responses--how individuals adjust private preventive actions to evolving risk. Using over 1.1 million county-day observations from 1,206 U.S. counties, we integrate high-frequency mobility data with local COVID-19 mortality to estimate the semi-elasticity of preventive behavior to mortality-driven risk perception. Fixed-effects regressions exploit within-county temporal variation, controlling for day-of-week a...

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