2021
DOI: 10.1002/soej.12495
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Stay‐at‐home orders were issued earlier in economically unfree states

Abstract: Stay‐at‐home orders curtailed the individual liberty of those across the United States. Governors of some states moved swiftly to impose the lockdowns. Others delayed and a few even refused to implement these policies. We explore common narratives of what determines the speed of implementation, namely partisanship and virus exposure. While correlation exists, we show that the most consistent explanation for the speed of the implementation of these orders is the state's economic freedom. It was the economically… Show more

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“…Empirically, we expect economic freedom to be associated with a greater burden from such diseases. As we pointed out in the introduction, McCannon and Hall (2021) and Geloso and Murtazashvili (2021) provide evidence that economically free states/nations reacted more slowly and less aggressively to the pandemic (all else being equal).…”
Section: Economic Freedom Bundling and Disease Burdenmentioning
confidence: 90%
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“…Empirically, we expect economic freedom to be associated with a greater burden from such diseases. As we pointed out in the introduction, McCannon and Hall (2021) and Geloso and Murtazashvili (2021) provide evidence that economically free states/nations reacted more slowly and less aggressively to the pandemic (all else being equal).…”
Section: Economic Freedom Bundling and Disease Burdenmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Thus, the long-term commitment to secure property rights would allow governments to temporarily invoke powers which, for less trustworthy regimes, would not generate the adverse trade-offs highlighted by Troesken (2015). However, given the results of McCannon and Hall (2021) regarding state-level lockdowns and economic freedom in the United States (see introduction) and the empirical literature on the ratchet effect of crises on the scale and scope of government (Higgs, 1987;O'Reilly & Powell, 2015;Coyne and Hall, 2018), we are skeptical of whether such short-run variations are only transitory. We thus prefer to emphasize the mechanisms we underline in this paragraph.…”
Section: Economic Freedom Bundling and Disease Burdenmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Calls for greater investments in public health infrastructure abound, ranging in scale from local to global (Susskind & Vines, 2020 ). Research in America reinforces this presumption, showing slower and less strict pandemic policies in states with more economic freedom (McCannon & Hall, 2021 ), along with a lower likelihood to adopt social distancing, mask-wearing, and vaccination in areas with a history of cultural individualism (Bazzi et al, 2021 ; Bian et al, 2022 ).…”
Section: Infectious Disease Liberalism and The Statementioning
confidence: 96%
“…But they also note that these interventions have a large cost, especially for children or the vulnerable. McCannon and Hall ( 2021 ) find that less economically free states were quicker to impose stay-at-home orders. Though there is no evidence that autocracies have performed better overall than democracies (Frey et al.…”
Section: Implications For Understanding Covid-19mentioning
confidence: 99%