The impact of COVID-19 on the ride-sharing industry and its recovery: Causal evidence from China.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented disruptions to many industries, and the transportation industry is among the most disrupted ones. We seek to address, in the context of a ride-sharing platform, the response of drivers to the pandemic and the post-pandemic recovery. We collected comprehensive trip data from one of the leading ride-sharing companies in China from September 2019 to August 2020, which cover pre-, during-, and post-pandemic phases in three major Chinese cities, and investigate the causal effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on driver behavior. We find that drivers only slightly reduce their number of shifts in response to increased COVID-19 cases, likely because they have to make a living from providing ride-sharing services. Nevertheless, conditional on working, driv

SUBMITTER: Wang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8554112 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature