Table 1.
Summary statistics.
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | mean | sd | min | max | |
| Democracy (Polity IV), index | 54,322 | 5.181 | 5.945 | -10 | 10 |
| Autocracy (WPR), dummy | 58,720 | 0.209 | 0.407 | 0 | 1 |
| Confirmed COVID-19 cases, log | 42,240 | 5.659 | 3.287 | 0 | 14.63 |
| COVID-19 related deaths, log | 42,240 | 2.402 | 2.659 | 0 | 11.80 |
| Mobility, index | 47,904 | -18.55 | 31.65 | -97 | 188 |
| Real GDP per capita, log | 56,398 | 9.052 | 1.403 | 5.605 | 11.67 |
| Mobile phone subscriptions per hundred people | 54,696 | 115.7 | 34.74 | 33.46 | 345.3 |
| Transparency and accountability, dummy | 58,777 | 0.0889 | 0.285 | 0 | 1 |
| Experience with previous epidemics, dummy | 58,720 | 0.0681 | 0.252 | 0 | 1 |
| Contact tracing, index | 52,987 | 0.834 | 0.830 | 0 | 2 |
| Testing, index | 53,170 | 0.986 | 0.851 | 0 | 3 |
| Extent of welfare system, index | 37,584 | 5.481 | 1.705 | 2 | 9.500 |
| Human capital, index | 45,681 | 2.772 | 0.652 | 1.205 | 3.809 |
| Tax revenue, % GDP | 43,139 | 16.76 | 6.717 | 0.0435 | 37.75 |
| Bureaucratic quality, index | 56,308 | 0.683 | 1.197 | -2.001 | 3.371 |
| Generalised trust, index | 23,040 | 1.758 | 0.166 | 1.326 | 1.972 |
| Voting in national elections, index | 22,556 | 1.537 | 0.297 | 1.061 | 2.766 |
| Individuals using the Internet, % population | 49,953 | 55.96 | 27.65 | 4.323 | 98.24 |
Sources: Google Community Mobility Reports; OxCGRT; Polity IV; World Population Review; World Value Survey v6; World Bank; Quality of Government Dataset.