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There were large variations in the frequency and intensity of county and city governmental policy... more There were large variations in the frequency and intensity of county and city governmental policy responses at the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we aim to determine whether the political leanings of a given locality affect whether its government imposes a mandatory policy on its constituents before any government superior to it does so, where such superior governments allow. Controlling for confounders, among the nationwide set of all qualifying counties, we find that there is a small but strong negative correlation between the partisan leanings of a county (Trump vote-share) and the probability it will issue a stay-at-home order before the state, controlling for COVID severity. Our results estimate that a hypothetical Democratic county in the 5th percentile of Trump vote share would be 15.43 percentage points more likely than a Republican county at the 95th percentile to act before its state. However, at the city level, we find no evidence of the same part...
The FASEB Journal, 2017
Antibiotics are a hallmark of modern medicine, having saved countless lives since the discovery o... more Antibiotics are a hallmark of modern medicine, having saved countless lives since the discovery of penicillin in 1928. Bacteria resistant to antibiotics emerged shortly after introduction, and is a...
REGION
Since its emergence in 2019, the worldwide spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) ... more Since its emergence in 2019, the worldwide spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has created a vast economic crisis as government lockdowns place considerable strain on businesses of all kinds – particularly those that rely on face-to-face contact, such as retail restaurants, and personal services. Given the recent emergence of the virus and lags in data collection and publication, the highest-quality fine-grained spatial datasets on economic behavior will not reflect virus-related impacts for at least a year. At the same time, in order to make evidence-based decisions on policies regarding continuing lockdown and/or re-opening policies, local governments and researchers need to understand neighborhood-level economic effects much sooner than that. This paper makes use of the point-level Chicago Business License dataset, which is updated on a weekly basis, to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on new business activity in the City of Chicago. The results indic...
There were large variations in the frequency and intensity of county and city governmental policy... more There were large variations in the frequency and intensity of county and city governmental policy responses at the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we aim to determine whether the political leanings of a given locality affect whether its government imposes a mandatory policy on its constituents before any government superior to it does so, where such superior governments allow. Controlling for confounders, among the nationwide set of all qualifying counties, we find that there is a small but strong negative correlation between the partisan leanings of a county (Trump vote-share) and the probability it will issue a stay-at-home order before the state, controlling for COVID severity. Our results estimate that a hypothetical Democratic county in the 5th percentile of Trump vote share would be 15.43 percentage points more likely than a Republican county at the 95th percentile to act before its state. However, at the city level, we find no evidence of the same part...
The FASEB Journal, 2017
Antibiotics are a hallmark of modern medicine, having saved countless lives since the discovery o... more Antibiotics are a hallmark of modern medicine, having saved countless lives since the discovery of penicillin in 1928. Bacteria resistant to antibiotics emerged shortly after introduction, and is a...
REGION
Since its emergence in 2019, the worldwide spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) ... more Since its emergence in 2019, the worldwide spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has created a vast economic crisis as government lockdowns place considerable strain on businesses of all kinds – particularly those that rely on face-to-face contact, such as retail restaurants, and personal services. Given the recent emergence of the virus and lags in data collection and publication, the highest-quality fine-grained spatial datasets on economic behavior will not reflect virus-related impacts for at least a year. At the same time, in order to make evidence-based decisions on policies regarding continuing lockdown and/or re-opening policies, local governments and researchers need to understand neighborhood-level economic effects much sooner than that. This paper makes use of the point-level Chicago Business License dataset, which is updated on a weekly basis, to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on new business activity in the City of Chicago. The results indic...