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How long do voluntary lockdowns keep people at home? The role of social capital during the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Yuta Kuroda
  • Takaki Sato
  • Yasumasa Matsuda

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We create a city-by-day-level mobility index for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic from data on over 80 million mobile devices to analyze how social distancing compliance varies with social capital levels. We find that in the second year of the pandemic, both voluntary preventative activities and policy compliance were substantially reduced in areas with low levels of social capital but not in areas with high levels of social capital. Additionally, in Japan, mobility was clearly reduced among those supporting a majority party, and there is little heterogeneity by political preference as related to ideology or position. This suggests that valuing conformity with others is an important driver of behavior that is beneficial to the community.

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  • Yuta Kuroda & Takaki Sato & Yasumasa Matsuda, 2022. "How long do voluntary lockdowns keep people at home? The role of social capital during the COVID-19 pandemic," DSSR Discussion Papers 125, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University.
    • Handle: RePEc:toh:dssraa:125
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