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JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook

We use aggregated data from Facebook to show that COVID-19 is more likely to spread between regions with stronger social network connections. Areas with more social ties to two early COVID-19 “hotspots” (Westchester County, NY, in the U.S. and Lodi province in Italy) generally had more confirmed COV...

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Published in:Journal of urban economics 2022-01, Vol.127, p.103314-103314, Article 103314
Main Authors: Kuchler, Theresa, Russel, Dominic, Stroebel, Johannes
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