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cord-312618-rxg7sjd9	Allcott, Hunt	Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus Pandemic	2020-08-06		.txt	text/plain	9682	579	61	We use location data from a large sample of smartphones to show that areas with more Republicans engaged in less social distancing, controlling for other factors including public policies, population density, and local COVID cases and deaths. We then present new survey evidence of significant gaps at the individual level between Republicans and Democrats in self-reported social distancing, beliefs about personal COVID risk, and beliefs about the future severity of the pandemic. To complement the data showing county-level differences in behavior, we use a nationally-representative survey to show that individual behavior and beliefs about social distancing are partisan. Appendix Figure A4 aggregates the number of POI visits at the electoral precinct level and shows similar partisan gaps, even when including county-time fixed effects. These measures are constructed as follows from the Daily Social Distancing SafeGraph data with observations at the census block group-day level for January 27 through July 12.	./cache/cord-312618-rxg7sjd9.txt	./txt/cord-312618-rxg7sjd9.txt