remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …

socioeconomic activity and whom to prioritize in allocating vaccines or other scarce medical resources. We discuss the implications …

This paper investigates the effect of the lockdown on COVID-19 infections. After the 22nd of March 2020, the Italian … the about one third of the cases considered could be attributed to the less stringent lockdown for essential sectors, with … suggests that the less stringent lockdown came at moderate public health related economic costs. In addition, we find that …

We present findings from a novel survey of Italian, British, and American families in lockdown during the COVID-19 … intra-household cooperation. While the long-run consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown on family life cannot be assessed at …

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-differences and a regression discontinuity design to evaluate the causal effects of lockdown, we find a substantial increase in the … may have been severely affected by the lockdown. …