How do economic and public finance statuses affect policy responses during a pandemic? – learning from the COVID-19 first wave

Table 2 Regression models relating the average count of measures to population and economic and public finance characteristics

	Average total measures		Average total public health measures		Average total economic measures
	Estimates	Standard Error	Estimates	Standard Error	Estimates	Standard Error
(Intercept)	1.0162	1.9383	1.7952	1.3977	−0.7790	1.0730
log(PopSize_i)	0.6423 ^***	0.0917	0.3485 ^***	0.0661	0.2938 ^***	0.0507
log (PopDensity_i)	−0.0417	0.1214	−0.0832	0.0875	0.0415	0.0672
Perc0to19_i	−0.0220	0.0157	−0.0141	0.0113	−0.0080	0.0087
Perc20to64_i	−0.0160	0.0194	−0.0147	0.0140	−0.0013	0.0107
log (GDP_i)	0.9497 ^***	0.2180	0.4656 ^**	0.1572	0.4841 ^***	0.1207
CABalance_i	−0.0214 ^*	0.0102	−0.0086	0.0073	−0.0128 ^*	0.0056
GovtSurplus_i	0.0074	0.0122	−0.0074	0.0088	0.0148 ^*	0.0067
N	174		174		174
Adjusted R²	40.6%		24.1%		37.4%

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