Financial relief policy and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

In this paper, we investigate the effect of stimulus payments during the COVID-19 pandemic on the social distancing practices of their recipients. While the directed cash payments stipulated by the 2020 CARES Act were intended to mitigate the economic impact of closures imposed in response to the ou...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cody Yu-Ling Hsiao, Stanley Iat-Meng Ko, Nan Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLOS Global Public Health
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021646/?tool=EBI