Richer communities have been more likely to stay home during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers say that could be because poorer communities may have more essential workers who can't work from home.
For the study, they used data from mobile location devices between January and April 2020 and found that social distancing varied by income.
"We found that before the pandemic, individuals in the wealthiest neighborhoods tended to be the least likely to stay completely at home on a given day," researcher Joakim Weill said in a university news release. He's a graduate student in the department of agricultural and resource economics. The study couldn't show the causes for this reversal. But poorer communities may have more essential workers who can't work from home, the researchers said.
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