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. 2020 Oct 17;220(1):23–62. doi: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.09.003

Table 2.

Correlations among policies and behavior .

workplaces retail grocery transit masks for employees closed K-12 schools stay at home closed movie theaters closed restaurants closed non-essent bus business closure policies
workplaces 1.00
retail 0.93 1.00
grocery 0.75 0.83 1.00
transit 0.89 0.92 0.83 1.00
masks for employees −0.32 −0.17 −0.15 −0.29 1.00
closed K-12 schools −0.91 −0.79 −0.55 −0.72 0.43 1.00
stay at home −0.69 −0.69 −0.70 −0.71 0.28 0.62 1.00
closed movie theaters −0.81 −0.76 −0.64 −0.71 0.34 0.82 0.72 1.00
closed restaurants −0.77 −0.82 −0.68 −0.76 0.21 0.74 0.72 0.82 1.00
closed non-essent bus −0.65 −0.68 −0.68 −0.64 0.08 0.56 0.76 0.68 0.71 1.00
business closure policies −0.84 −0.84 −0.75 −0.79 0.24 0.78 0.81 0.92 0.93 0.87 1.00

Each off-diagonal entry reports a correlation coefficient of a pair of policy and behavior variables. “business closure policies” is defined by the average of closured movie theaters, closured restaurants, and closured non-essential businesses.