Table 4.
Robustness checks
| Different distancing measures | UI leads | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | |
| Fraction of time staying at home | 0.8064*** (0.2309) | ||
| Device exposure index (DEX) | -0.0190 (0.0216) | ||
| Fraction of people staying at home | 0.9589*** (0.2570) | ||
| Observations | 5220 | 4536 | 5148 |
| R2 | 0.8976 | 0.8991 | 0.8975 |
DEX is available since January 20, 2020. All regressions are weighted by population and include month, day of week, city, holiday dummies, local maximum temperature, and the lagged domestic violence rate. Robust standard errors in parentheses are clustered by state. *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01