The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak …. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of …

attitudes. We explore human mobility patterns as a measure of behavioural responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results … indicate a strong negative relationship between mobility reduction and risk-taking preferences. We find that the sharp decline … behavioural adjustment, measured as the effect of mobility change after the first recorded death in the country, is sharper when …