US state-level economic freedom during the COVID-19 pandemic

IF 0.9 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

American Journal of Economics and Sociology Pub Date : 2023-05-05 DOI:10.1111/ajes.12512

Vincent J. Miozzi, Benjamin Powell

引用次数: 2

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic led to extensive new government regulations and lockdown policies that significantly reduced economic freedom across US states. Many of these new pandemic-related regulatory restrictions on economic freedom varied significantly from state to state but are largely missed by the existing Economic Freedom of North America Report (EFNA). This paper adjusts the Our World in Data COVID-19 Stringency Index into a state-level measure of lockdown regulatory freedom and then merges it into the EFNA index to better measure relative economic freedom across US states in 2020. We find significant differences in the relative ranking of economic freedom between states once we adjust for lockdown regulatory restrictions.

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COVID - 19大流行期间美国州级经济自由

新冠肺炎疫情导致了广泛的新政府法规和封锁政策，大大降低了美国各州的经济自由度。许多与疫情相关的新的经济自由监管限制因州而异，但现有的《北美经济自由报告》（EFNA）在很大程度上忽略了这些限制。本文将“我们的数据世界新冠肺炎严格指数”调整为一个衡量封锁监管自由度的州级指标，然后将其合并到EFNA指数中，以更好地衡量2020年美国各州的相对经济自由度。一旦我们调整了封锁监管限制，我们发现各州之间的经济自由度相对排名存在显著差异。©2023美国经济与社会学杂志，股份有限公司。

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American Journal of Economics and Sociology Multiple-

CiteScore

1.90

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) was founded in 1941, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, to encourage the development of transdisciplinary solutions to social problems. In the introduction to the first issue, John Dewey observed that “the hostile state of the world and the intellectual division that has been built up in so-called ‘social science,’ are … reflections and expressions of the same fundamental causes.” Dewey commended this journal for its intention to promote “synthesis in the social field.” Dewey wrote those words almost six decades after the social science associations split off from the American Historical Association in pursuit of value-free knowledge derived from specialized disciplines. Since he wrote them, academic or disciplinary specialization has become even more pronounced. Multi-disciplinary work is superficially extolled in major universities, but practices and incentives still favor highly specialized work. The result is that academia has become a bastion of analytic excellence, breaking phenomena into components for intensive investigation, but it contributes little synthetic or holistic understanding that can aid society in finding solutions to contemporary problems. Analytic work remains important, but in response to the current lop-sided emphasis on specialization, the board of AJES has decided to return to its roots by emphasizing a more integrated and practical approach to knowledge.