April 2, 2020: Coronavirus in your backyard
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Good morning,
A short update today, my time has been occupied by another project with a tight deadline. Things should be back to normal tomorrow.
Coronavirus in your backyard
From a paper released yesterday by my brother and his fellow econ grad students at the University of Wisconsin:
We find that a rise of local infection rate from 0% to 0.003% is associated with a reduction in mobility by 7.44%. An official stay-at-home restriction order corresponds to reducing mobility by 6.71%.
Interestingly, it doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s an official stay-at-home order or simply the presence of local coronavirus cases, both are correlated with a reduction of movement as measured by GPS data.
Seems like everyone and their brother (sorry for the bad joke) have shifted their focus to COVID-19 these days.
If you want to inform similar future research, check out https://covid19.eurekaplatform.org/.
WFH Setup of the day
For the cat lovers out there. Send me your setup to have it included in the future!
See you tomorrow!
Andrew
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