Stay‐at‐home orders curtailed the individual liberty of those across the United States. Governors of some states moved swiftly to impose the lockdowns. Others delayed and a few even refused to implement these policies. We explore common narratives of what determines the speed of implementation, namely partisanship and virus exposure. While correlation exists, we show that the most consistent explanation for the speed of the implementation of these orders is the state's economic freedom. It was the economically unfree states that issued stay‐at‐home orders earlier.

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经济不自由的州更早发布了居家令

居家令限制了美国各地人们的个人自由。一些州的州长迅速采取行动实施封锁。其他人推迟了，一些人甚至拒绝执行这些政策。我们探讨了决定实施速度的因素的常见叙述，即党派偏见和病毒暴露。虽然存在相关性，但我们表明，对这些命令的执行速度最一致的解释是国家的经济自由。早先发布居家令的是经济上不自由的州。