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cord-259871-46al6phc	Weill, Joakim A.	Social distancing responses to COVID-19 emergency declarations strongly differentiated by income	2020-08-18		.txt	text/plain	2554	130	50	In this paper, we use anonymized location pings data from mobile devices covering the entire United States to provide direct evidence of systematic differences in social distancing behavior across income levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. To address both concerns in a multivariate framework, we use a panel regression analysis with an event study design to estimate how social distancing behaviors are related to state emergency declarations, and how the response varies by income group (Eq. 1) . We find that pretrends are absent from our preferred social distancing measure "completely at home" as well as "device exposure." In contrast, for "median distance traveled," we find that individuals in wealthier counties show substantial behavior change before their state's declaration, while "retail and recreation" shows an early pretrend that is then absent in the 2 wk before the event. Overall, we show that social distancing following states' emergency declarations is substantial and strongly differentiated by county-level income.	./cache/cord-259871-46al6phc.txt	./txt/cord-259871-46al6phc.txt