Table 8.
Are the impacts influenced by the death of George Floyd.
| Y=Psychological distress |
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|---|---|---|
| All Five Weeks | Excluding Week 5 | |
| (1) | (2) | |
| COVID-19 mortality rate | 0.080*** | 0.084*** |
| (0.015) | (0.015) | |
| Observations | 157,035 | 116,066 |
Note: Our main explanatory variable, COVID-19 Mortality Rate, is the total number of people in the state who have died as a result of COVID-19 a week from the survey start date, divided by the state's population, and multiplied by 10,000. The dependent variable is Psychological Distress. All regressions are the most extensive individual fixed effects specifications. Robust standard errors are clustered at the state-by-week level. Sampling weights are used since the unweighted estimates may be biased in the presence of endogenous sampling. , , ***.