{"id":2635,"date":"2020-04-28T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/insights\/social-connections-increase-compliance-with-mobility-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2020-12-10T17:20:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:20:25","slug":"social-connections-increase-compliance-with-mobility-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"http:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/zh-hans\/insights\/social-connections-increase-compliance-with-mobility-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Connections Increase Compliance with Mobility Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><i>Counties with one-standard-deviation more social connections to China or Italy have a 50% higher compliance with mobility restrictions like \u201cshelter-in-place\u201d policies<\/i>.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mobility restrictions play a crucial role in mitigating the spread of pandemics. As local governments may be limited in their capacity to monitor and enforce mobility restrictions, households must voluntarily comply with social distancing rules for them to be effective. We study how social connectedness, measured by Facebook connections around the world, affects the efficacy of mobility restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Our empirical results suggest the flow of information through social connections is an economically significant driver of social distancing. A one-standard-deviation increase in social connections with China and Italy &#8211; the first countries with major outbreaks of the virus \u2013 increases the effectiveness of mobility restrictions by around 50%. For our analysis, we use Facebook\u2019s county-level Social Connectedness Index and geolocation data from mobile devices from SafeGraph, which aggregates and provides anonymous user mobility data for the purpose of COVID-19 research. The effect of social connections exists regardless of political orientation but are stronger for Republican counties, which on average appear to comply less with mobility restrictions. It is also stronger for counties with older and less educated populations. Groups at higher risk from COVID-19 comply with restrictions better and are less affected by social connections. Our findings are consistent with social networks contributing to households\u2019 information acquisition about the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button clear\" href=\"https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Charoenwong_social_distancing_integrated-v3.pdf\">View Paper<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 <a class=\"button clear\" href=\"https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/chicagobfi-abfer-presentation.pptx\">View Presentation Slides<\/a><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1644\" src=\"http:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Social-Distancing-Social-Connections-in-China.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1834\" height=\"1343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Social-Distancing-Social-Connections-in-China.jpg 1834w, https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Social-Distancing-Social-Connections-in-China-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Social-Distancing-Social-Connections-in-China-1024x750.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Social-Distancing-Social-Connections-in-China-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Social-Distancing-Social-Connections-in-China-1536x1125.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1834px) 100vw, 1834px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1644,"template":"","insight_types":[495],"class_list":["post-2635","insights","type-insights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","insight_types-fact-zh-hans"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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