{
  "slug": "state-capacity-and-covid-19-responses-comparing-the-u-s-states",
  "title": "State Capacity and COVID-19 Responses: Comparing the U.S. States",
  "authors": "with Kiran Auerbach and Hannah M. Ridge",
  "venue": "State Politics & Policy Quarterly",
  "year": 2024,
  "category": "evaluation",
  "section": "peerReviewed",
  "status": "published",
  "visibility": "public-pdf",
  "doi": "10.1017/spq.2024.11",
  "canonical_url": "https://doi.org/10.1017/spq.2024.11",
  "summary": "A new subnational measure of state capacity is used to explain why some states handled the pandemic better than others. Higher-capacity states had fewer excess deaths in 2020 and distributed vaccines more effectively in early 2021, even after accounting for partisanship, demographics, geography, and social capital. Anti-COVID policies also worked best where states had enough administrative capacity to actually enforce them.",
  "metadata_url": "https://jyl19.github.io/papers/state-capacity-and-covid-19-responses-comparing-the-u-s-states/metadata.json",
  "summary_url": "https://jyl19.github.io/papers/state-capacity-and-covid-19-responses-comparing-the-u-s-states/summary.md",
  "pdf_url": "https://jyl19.github.io/papers/state-capacity-and-covid-19-responses-comparing-the-u-s-states/paper.pdf"
}