This study examines the impact on human mobility of the national social distancing policies implemented in 18 Latin … countries with regard to whether these measures were introduced and when. Mobility is measured as the percentage of people … traveling more than 1 kilometer per day. Results indicate that lockdowns reduced mobility by an average of 10 percentage points …

of regional disaggregation, the paper documents how most of the reduction in mobility observed in Spain has been due to … early stages of the pandemic, the reduction in mobility was found to be greater than would be inferred by the restrictions … approved. That is to say, at the outset there was apparently some voluntary reduction in mobility. Yet following lockdown …