Table 1.
Summary statistics
Variable | Democratic counties | Republican counties | All counties |
Outcomes | |||
Median time at home, min | 638.41 | 641.14 | 640.72 |
(229.07) | (185.42) | (192.86) | |
Log median time at home | 6.34 | 6.38 | 6.37 |
(0.64) | (0.54) | (0.56) | |
Share of devices home all day | 28.40 | 25.52 | 25.97 |
(9.21) | (7.91) | (8.19) | |
Log distance traveled | 8.87 | 9.04 | 9.01 |
(0.54) | (0.61) | (0.60) | |
Independent variables | |||
COVID-19 messages | 5.16 | 5.17 | 5.17 |
(6.95) | (7.81) | (7.68) | |
Social distancing messages | 1.17 | 1.14 | 1.15 |
(2.29) | (2.51) | (2.48) | |
Stay home messages | 0.44 | 0.38 | 0.39 |
(1.38) | (1.42) | (1.41) | |
Post social distancing message | 0.63 | 0.61 | 0.61 |
(0.48) | (0.49) | (0.49) | |
Post stay-at-home message | 0.28 | 0.26 | 0.26 |
(0.45) | (0.44) | (0.44) | |
Trump vote margin | −0.23 | 0.42 | 0.32 |
(0.18) | (0.20) | (0.30) | |
Covariates | |||
Post emergency order | 0.70 | 0.68 | 0.68 |
(0.46) | (0.47) | (0.47) | |
Post large gatherings ban | 0.48 | 0.41 | 0.42 |
(0.50) | (0.49) | (0.49) | |
Post school closure | 0.48 | 0.44 | 0.45 |
(0.50) | (0.50) | (0.50) | |
Post restaurant closure | 0.44 | 0.40 | 0.41 |
(0.50) | (0.49) | (0.49) | |
Post nonessential business closure | 0.17 | 0.13 | 0.14 |
(0.38) | (0.34) | (0.34) | |
Post stay-at-home order | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.16 |
(0.40) | (0.36) | (0.37) | |
Confirmed COVID-19 cases | 56.88 | 2.66 | 11.08 |
(439.51) | (51.26) | (180.58) | |
Median age | 38.41 | 41.83 | 41.30 |
(5.23) | (5.11) | (5.28) | |
Log household income | 10.86 | 10.81 | 10.82 |
(0.37) | (0.22) | (0.25) | |
Share over 65 y | 0.16 | 0.19 | 0.18 |
(0.04) | (0.04) | (0.04) | |
Share Black | 0.22 | 0.07 | 0.09 |
(0.24) | (0.10) | (0.15) | |
Share Hispanic | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.09 |
(0.21) | (0.11) | (0.14) | |
Share male | 0.49 | 0.50 | 0.50 |
(0.02) | (0.02) | (0.02) | |
Population density | 457.46 | 39.02 | 104.01 |
(1,719.47) | (97.60) | (700.16) | |
Share retail | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 |
(0.02) | (0.02) | (0.02) | |
Share service | 0.20 | 0.18 | 0.18 |
(0.04) | (0.03) | (0.04) | |
Share manufacturing | 0.10 | 0.13 | 0.12 |
(0.06) | (0.07) | (0.07) | |
Observations | 14,708 | 79,982 | 94,690 |
Counties | 484 | 2,616 | 3,100 |
Table displays means and standard deviations of key variables of interest, as well as the number of observations and the number of clusters. The sample consisted of 94,690 county-days from 1 March to 31 March 2020.