Data and Code for: Laissez-faire, Social Networks, and Race in a Pandemic

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Roland Pongou, University of Ottawa; Guy Tchuente, University of Kent; Jean-Baptiste Tondji, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Project Citation: 

Pongou, Roland, Tchuente, Guy, and Tondji, Jean-Baptiste. Data and Code for: Laissez-faire, Social Networks, and Race in a Pandemic. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-04-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E159041V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We use unique data on nursing home networks in the United States and estimation of state-level preference for prioritizing short-term economic gains over health to analyze the effects of race, laissez-faire (more tolerance to the virus spread) policies, and network centrality on COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes. Our findings suggest that laissez-faire policies increase deaths. Nursing homes with a larger share of black residents experience more deaths, but they are less vulnerable to laissez-faire policies, especially when not central in social networks. Our findings highlight significant interactions between COVID-19 policies, race, and network structure among U.S. seniors.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Government of Ontario in Canada (ERA grant 400201-190299-2001); SSHRC's Partnership Engage Grants COVID-19 Special Initiative (PEG 231377-190299-2001); SSHRC's Insight Grant (231415-190299-2001)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Race; Nursing homes; COVID-19; Laissez-faire policies; Network centrality
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D85 Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
      E61 Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
      H12 Crisis Management
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage U.S. nursing homes; States in the United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 3/13/2020 – 8/16/2020
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 3/13/2020 – 8/16/2020
Universe:  View help for Universe The dataset on U.S. nursing home networks was constructed by the ``Protect Nursing Homes" project members. They used device-level geolocation data for 501,503 smartphones in at least one of the 15,307 nursing homes in the 11 weeks following the nationwide restriction on nursing home visits on March 13, 2020. We complement the dataset with the estimated values of COVID-19 tolerable infection incidence for each U.S state.  
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; geographic information system (GIS) data; survey data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes The final dataset was constructed using restricted-access data on the U.S. nursing homes from Yale University’s “Protect Nursing Homes Project” and other publicly available sources.

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source The data on U.S. nursing homes are publicly available and originated from Chen, Chevalier, and Long (2021)’s replication package.  The conditions to access the data are available on the project webpage. The data on the measures of tolerable infection incidence in each U.S. state are collected from Pongou, Tchuente, and Tondji (2021).
Collection Mode(s):  View help for Collection Mode(s) web scraping
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Staffs and contracted who visited U.S. nursing facilities; nursing homes; each state in the U.S.
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit A state in the United States.

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