Consumer location tracking is becoming omnipresent on mobile devices, producing massive volumes of behavior-rich location data and an elaborate multi-billion dollar ecosystem consisting of consumers providing data, third-party data collectors aggregating data, and advertisers using the data for...

Individualism has long been linked to economic growth. Using the COVID-19 pandemic, we show that such a culture can hamper the economy's response to crises, a period with heightened coordination frictions. Exploiting variation in US counties' frontier experience, we show that more individualist...