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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