covid_data: COVID-19 Spread and School Policy Effects Data

In ablasso: Arellano-Bond LASSO Estimator for Dynamic Linear Panel Models

COVID-19 Spread and School Policy Effects Data

Description

A balanced panel data set analyzing the impact of K-12 school openings and other policy measures on the spread of COVID-19 across U.S. counties. The data spans 32 weeks from April 1st to December 2nd, 2020, and covers 2510 counties.

Usage

covid_data

Format

A data frame with 80320 (2510 counties times 32 weeks) rows and 9 columns. Each column represents a variable:

fips

County FIPS

week

Week

school

A measure of visits to K-12 schools from SafeGraph foot traffic data

logdc

Logarithm of the number of reported COVID-19 cases

pmask

Policy indicators on mask mandates

pgather50

Policy indicators on ban on gatherings of more than 50 persons

college

Measure of visits to colleges

pshelter

Policy indicators on stay-at-home orders

dlogtests

A measure of the weekly growth rate in the number of tests

Source

Data initially provided by Victor Chernozhukov, Hiroyuki Kasahara, and Paul Schrimpf on the GitHub repository https://github.com/ubcecon/covid-schools. Counties with missing values are dropped to obtain a balanced panel dataset.

Examples

data(covid_data) # Access the dataset

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