political, social, and economic correlates of spread
Existing social science research has implications for the kinds of features of societies that might help explain variation in a society's ability to respond to adverse shocks. In some accounts, for example, more democratic societies will be more responsive; in other accounts, state capacity or social cohesion are more important. We gather together major measures suggested by these literatures and report on the evolving covariance between these measures and the cross national distribution of reported Covid-19 burdens.
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See our dashboard.
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See our paper discussing the literature and logics behind these analyses.
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See this paper for even more discussion as well as supplementary analysis on policy outcome measures.
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Merged complete data here.
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This repo contains all code to produce our working papers, data, and dashboard.