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The Relationship between In-Person Voting and COVID-19: Evidence from the Wisconsin Primary / Chad D. Cotti, Bryan Engelhardt, Joshua Foster, Erik T. Nesson, Paul S. Niekamp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cotti, Chad D.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27187.
- NBER working paper series no. w27187
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- On April 7, 2020, Wisconsin held its presidential primary election, and news reports showed long lines of voters due to fewer polling locations. We use county-level variation in voting patterns and weekly county-level COVID test data to examine whether in-person voting increased COVID-19 cases. We find a statistically significant association between in-person voting density and the spread of COVID-19 two to three weeks after the election. In our main results, a 10% increase in in-person voters per polling location is associated with an 18.4% increase in the COVID-19 positive test rate two to three weeks later.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2020.
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