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100	1		_aAllcott, Hunt.
245	1	0	_aPolarization and Public Health: _bPartisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus Pandemic / _cHunt Allcott, Levi Boxell, Jacob C. Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, David Y. Yang.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2020.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w26946
500			_aApril 2020.
520	3		_aWe study partisan differences in Americans' response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Political leaders and media outlets on the right and left have sent divergent messages about the severity of the crisis, which could impact the extent to which Republicans and Democrats engage in social distancing and other efforts to reduce disease transmission. We develop a simple model of a pandemic response with heterogeneous agents that clarifies the causes and consequences of heterogeneous responses. We use location data from a large sample of smartphones to show that areas with more Republicans engaged in less social distancing, controlling for other factors including public policies, population density, and local COVID cases and deaths. We then present new survey evidence of significant gaps at the individual level between Republicans and Democrats in self-reported social distancing, beliefs about personal COVID risk, and beliefs about the future severity of the pandemic.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aD72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aI12 - Health Behavior _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aI18 - Government Policy • Regulation • Public Health _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aBoxell, Levi.
700	1		_aConway, Jacob C.
700	1		_aGentzkow, Matthew. _929512
700	1		_aThaler, Michael.
700	1		_aYang, David Y.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w26946.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w26946
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w26946
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