Know your epidemic, know your response: Early perceptions of COVID-19 and self-reported social distancing in the United States

• Alberto Ciancio ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ciancio@sas.upenn.edu (AC); hpkohler@pop.upenn.edu (HPK)

  Affiliations Population Aging Research Center and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, Department of Economics, University of Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5346-0885

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• Fabrice Kämpfen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Population Aging Research Center and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Iliana V. Kohler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Population Aging Research Center and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Daniel Bennett,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Wändi Bruine de Bruin,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Jill Darling,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Arie Kapteyn,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Jürgen Maurer,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

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• Hans-Peter Kohler

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ciancio@sas.upenn.edu (AC); hpkohler@pop.upenn.edu (HPK)

  Affiliation Population Aging Research Center and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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