a column by Ruben Durante and Giorgio Gulino (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelon, Spain) and Luigi Guiso (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, Rome, Italy) for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Social distancing slows the spread of COVID-19. In regions that adopt social distancing practices early (i.e. before receiving explicit stay-at-home guidelines from their governments), the virus can be contained more quickly.
Using Italian data from phone location tracking of movements made by individuals after the pandemic began, this column finds sharper drops in mobility in areas with higher ‘civic capital’, suggesting that civic values can mediate the social distancing process.
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COVID-19, coronavirus, social_distancing, civic_capital, Italy,
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