A new study finds that people from lower-income communities were less likely to follow stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic because they could not afford to comply or their work could not be done remotely. By analyzing the mobile phone location data from...
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Cell phone data reveals poorer people are less able to follow stay-at-home orders during COVID-19
Individuals living in poorer and less affluent neighborhoods spent less time at home during various COVID-19 lockdown orders, according to a new international study. After analyzing mobile data on millions of U.S. citizens, study authors say poorer families and...
Here’s why poorer people are less able to stay at home amid Covid-19 pandemic
While the COVID-19 restrictions and lockdown have been introduced to obstruct the penetration of the contagious virus, a recent study that tracked data from millions of mobile phone users across the United States found, people living in deprived, less affluent...
PhD candidate Sicheng Wang is recipient of IACP Best Student Paper Award
His paper found that the willingness to ride share was related to price and time factors, such as price per mile, total price, and trip duration.
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