This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown on criminal activity in the City of …

econometric models to estimate the effect of Bogotás lockdown on fine particulate pollution, epidemiological models to simulate … lockdown cut fine particulate pollution by more than one-fifth. However, the magnitude of that effect varied considerably over …. Finally, we estimate that in 2020-2021, the lockdown reduced short-term deaths by 31 percent, a benefit valued at $180 million. …

did not impose a lockdown, we construct counterfactuals for what would have happened if it had imposed a lockdown, using a …, we find that a lockdown would have had sizable effects already after a week. The 3–4 weeks delay highlighted in previous …