Do stay-at-home orders cause people to stay at home? Effects of stay-at-home orders on consumer behavior
We link the county-level rollout of stay-at-home orders to anonymized cellphone records and consumer spending data. We document three patterns. First, stay-at-home orders caused people to stay at home: county-level measures of mobility declined by between 9% and 13% by the day after the stay-at-home order went into effect. Second, stay-at-home orders caused large reductions in spending in sectors associated with mobility: restaurants and retail stores. However, food delivery sharply increased after orders went into effect. Third, there is substantial county-level heterogeneity in consumer behavior in the days leading up to a stay-at-home order.
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2020
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Authors: | Alexander, Diane ; Karger, Ezra |
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Chicago, IL : Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
Subject: | Konsumentenverhalten | Mobilität | Politische Partei | Coronavirus | Gesundheitspolitik | USA |
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freely available
Series: | Working Paper ; 2020-12 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 10.21033/wp-2020-12 [DOI] 169563277X [GVK] hdl:10419/230390 [Handle] |
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