during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States using novel data collected by Belot et al. (2020). Among other factors, we …

This short note constructs Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility … restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Mobility Zones are disjoint sets of counties where a given level of individual … mobility directly or indirectly connects all counties within each set. I compute Mobility Zones for the United States and each …

This study quantifies the effect of state reopening policies on daily mobility, travel, and mixing behavior during the … different states. We quantify the increase in mobility patterns during the reopening phase by a broad range of cell …-device-based metrics. Soon (four days) after reopening, we observe a 6% to 8% mobility increase. In addition, we find that temperature and …

For much of 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic upended social and economic life globally. In an effort to reduce COVID-19 … broad contributions. First, we provide a concise review of economic and social science research on mobility patterns, labor … results from event study regressions that try to disentangle private vs. policy-induced changes in mobility patterns during …

coronavirus. We use de-identified data from Facebook to document that individuals with friends in areas with worse COVID-19 … outbreaks reduce their mobility more than otherwise similar individuals with friends in less affected areas. The effects are … quantitatively large and long-lasting: a one standard deviation increase in friend-exposure to COVID-19 cases in March 2020 results …