... from those liberal fascists in Utah! >8^D Mask mandates can actually spur the economy – depending on who enforces it, study says https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article247560430.html
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3736407 > We highlight the importance of signaling effects in determining whether > public policy should be implemented at a decentralized or centralized level. > For example, although a public policy may have the same direct effect if > enacted at a state or county level, people may perceive these policies > differently, leading to different indirect effects. We explore this mechanism > using the patchwork of mask mandate orders in the U.S. from April to > September 2020. State-wide mask mandates stimulate economic activity while > also reducing COVID-19 case growth. Surprisingly, county-level mask mandates > generally have the opposite effect, depressing economic activity. We argue > that different unintended signaling effects can explain these differences in > policy effects: households infer from county mask mandates that infection > risks have increased in their local area and, therefore, socially distance > more and spend less. In contrast, state mask mandates do not lead to similar > local inferences, and thus overall, they stimulate the economy. And since it's Elsevier, there's a link to an AWS hosted copy of the paper in the Herald article. p.s. Get well, Nick! Go to the doctor. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
