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. 2021 Jan 4;194:104342. doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104342

Table 2.

The virus is here. Voluntary response to news about the virus.

Dep. Var: Movement Per Capita (Province/Day)
(1) (2) (3) (4)
Feb 21–27 −0.1679∗∗∗ −0.1638∗∗∗ −0.1476∗∗∗ −0.1410∗∗∗
(0.0153) (0.0141) (0.0194) (0.0205)
Feb 21–27 × Top 75th Civic Capital −0.0384 −0.0370 −0.0466∗∗ −0.0325
(0.0226) (0.0214) (0.0180) (0.0188)
Feb 21–27 × Distance from Codogno 0.0725∗∗∗ 0.0683∗∗∗ 0.0417∗∗ 0.0413∗∗
(0.0170) (0.0159) (0.0169) (0.0172)



Province FE
Day of the Week FE
Local Covid-19 New Cases and Deaths ×
Geographic Controls × Phase × ×
Hospital Capacity × Phase × ×
Economic Controls × Phase × ×



Mean Dependent 1.12 1.12 1.12 1.12
Observations 1,170 1,170 1,170 1,170
R-Square 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.93

The table reports the results of regressions corresponding to different specification of Eq. (2) using total movements as dependent variable. The sample includes the days between February 14 and 28, and excludes provinces in Lombardy. In column 1–3 civic capital is measured as the first principal component of blood donation, trust, and newspaper readership; in column 4 as the first principal component of the first two variables only. Standard errors clustered at the province level are reported in parentheses. significant at 1% or less; significant at 5%; significant at 10%.