Alfaro, Laura; Faia, Ester; Lamersdorf, Nora; Saidi, Farzad - 2021
Social preferences facilitate the internalization of health externalities, for example by reducing mobility during a … pandemic. We test this hypothesis using mobility data from 258 cities worldwide alongside experimentally validated measures of … those regions, mobility falls ahead of lockdowns, and remains low after the lifting thereof. Our results elucidate the …