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 …

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 …

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

It is politicians who have to decide when to release the lockdown, and in what way. In doing so, they have to balance … the lockdown with the social and psychological benefits, and then compare the total of these with the increase in deaths …

economic lockdown and contagion. We then supply empirical evidence, by means of simulation analysis, on the distributive … effects of the lockdown for 31 European countries. Our results confirm that the lockdown is likely to significantly increase …