The impact of state- versus county-level mask mandates on economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Nathan Seegert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Finance, Northeastern University, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Maclean Gaulin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

  Affiliation School of Accounting, University of Utah, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4292-5779

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• Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacotherapy, University of Utah, Utah, United States of America

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• Francisco Navarro-Sanchez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Economics, Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3891-592X

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• Danielle Nguyen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacotherapy, University of Utah, Utah, United States of America

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• Mu-Jeung Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Richard E. Nelson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: richard.nelson@utah.edu

  Affiliations IDEAS Center, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4441-7460

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