Carneiro, Carlos B.; Ferreira, Iuri H.; Medeiros, Marcelo C. - 2021 - This version: January 2021
We adopt an artificial counterfactual approach to assess the impact of lockdowns on the short-run evolution of the number of cases and deaths in some US states. To do so, we explore the different timing in which US states adopted lockdown policies, and divide them among treated and control...
