We leverage staggered implementation of lockdown across Chile's 346 municipalities, identifying dynamic impacts on … domestic violence (DV). Using administrative data, we find lockdown imposition increases indicators of DV-related distress … by lockdown status. Once lockdown is lifted, police reports surge but we see a ratchet effect in distress. Our findings …

the actual impact of pandemic-related closures on child development, in this case for a sample of young children in Chile …

lockdown. Our results reveal how, relative to regions for which the lockdown arrived 10+ days after the pandemic's outbreak …

When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 … pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed … than 50,000 businesses, to have government end the lockdown altogether. In this paper we argue that both government and the …

In this paper, we provide causal evidence of the immediate and near-term impact of stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies … that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the treated districts … narrowed four months after the lockdown was lifted, we detect a persistent nationwide decline in both earnings and employment …

, we investigate the probability of female employment during the lockdown period between March and May 2020. Based on … marginalized castes, the probability of joblessness is about 10%. Lockdown is expected to have raised the economic inequality by …

Using a strict, age-specific lockdown order for adults aged 65 and older in Turkey, we examine the mental health …

We study how the political cost of enforcing a lockdown in response to the COVID- 19 outbreak relates to citizens … the crisis decreases with the amount of the penalties that individuals would like to see enforced for lockdown violations …