Timing of social distancing policies and COVID-19 mortality: county-level evidence from the U.S.

29 While the estimated coefficient on NPI speed is positive in column (6) of Table 10 , it is only marginally significant at the 10% level. 30 In turn, other studies examine how the ability to control the pandemic impacted political support and the 2020 elections (e.g., Baccini et al. 2021 ). 31 We also compare counties with Republican vote shares in the upper (more than 60%) and lower (less than 40%) ends of the distribution with counties at the margin (Lee et al. 2004 ).

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