The COVID-19 pandemic led to extensive new government regulations and lockdown policies that significantly reduced economic freedom across US states. Many of these new pandemic-related regulatory restrictions on economic freedom varied significantly from state to state but are largely missed by the existing Economic Freedom of North America Report (EFNA). This paper adjusts the Our World in Data COVID-19 Stringency Index into a state-level measure of lockdown regulatory freedom and then merges it into the EFNA index to better measure relative economic freedom across US states in 2020. We find significant differences in the relative ranking of economic freedom between states once we adjust for lockdown regulatory restrictions.

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COVID-19 大流行期间美国州级经济自由度

COVID-19 大流行导致了广泛的新政府法规和封锁政策，显着降低了美国各州的经济自由度。许多与疫情相关的新的经济自由监管限制因州而异，但现有的《北美经济自由度报告》 (EFNA) 基本上没有提及。本文将我们的数据世界COVID-19 严格性指数调整为州级封锁监管自由度指标，然后将其合并到 EFNA 指数中，以更好地衡量 2020 年美国各州的相对经济自由度。我们发现相对经济自由度存在显着差异。一旦我们调整封锁监管限制，各州之间的经济自由度排名。