Table 7.

The Effect of Misaligned Political Beliefs on Adherence to Social Distancing Orders.

	% Completely at Home
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
	Full Sample	Rep	Dem	Dem	Dem
State Policy	0.019***	0.019***	0.037***	0.021**	0.023**
	(5.00)	(4.62)	(4.32)	(2.24)	(2.37)
State Policy$\times$Misalign	$-$0.003*	$-$0.002	$-$0.007**	$-$0.009***	$-$0.008**
	($-$1.87)	($-$1.07)	($-$2.06)	($-$2.71)	($-$2.50)
Base Demographic Controls	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Robustness Controls	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Health Controls	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Other Closures	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Trump Vote Control	No	No	No	No	Yes
County FE	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Date FE	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
$R^2$	0.750	0.731	0.818	0.829	0.829
Observations	321,741	262,713	59,028	58,916	58,916

Note: This table reports the impact of misaligned political beliefs between residents and the policy announcer (the governor) on social distancing behavior. The unit of observation is a county-day. Misalign equals one if the county is Democratic (Republican) and the governor is Republican (Democratic) and equals zero otherwise. Robustness controls include the number of people in a county with a bachelors degree or higher, the racial makeup of a county (percent white, black, asian, and native american), the proportion of residents that believe climate change is human-induced, the fraction of residents that are male, a county’s social capital, the proportion of residents who can reasonably work from home (measured at the MSA level), and the daily precipitation, maximum temperature, and minimum temperature in a county. Definitions of dependent variables and controls can be found in Table A.1. t-statistics, based on standard errors double-clustered at the county and date level, are reported in parentheses. *** p$<$0.01, ** p$<$0.05, * p$<$0.1.