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. 2021 Aug 3;190:191–200. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.07.026

Table 2.

Individualism and compliance across the United States.

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
Residential Residential Residential Residential Residential
Stay at home dates (state-level) 1.295*** 1.103*** 0.773***
(0.199) (0.208) (0.181)
Stay at home dates × individualism -0.741*** -0.228 -0.746***
(0.231) (0.138) (0.154)
Stay at home dates × obedience 0.477**
(0.227)
Observations 139,009 139,009 139,009 138,847 138,847
R-squared 0.916 0.918 0.922 0.956 0.956
County FE yes yes yes yes yes
Date FE yes yes yes yes yes
State-date FE no no no yes yes
Policy x log wages no no yes yes yes

The table presents OLS estimates from regressing time spent at home at the county-level on (the one day-lag of) a dummy taking value 1 if on a given day, the government required people to stay at home. Columns 3, 4 and 5 include interactions between the dummy and the logarithm of wage income per capita. Columns 4 and 5 include state-date fixed effects. The individualism measure is obtained by summing up country-level measures weighted by the share of ancestors’ country of origin. The obedience measure is derived analogously. Errors are clustered at the state-level. The coefficients with are significant at the 1% level, with are significant at the 5% level, and with are significant at the 10% level.