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 …

US states have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess the impact of state policy … associated with social distancing. We find that lockdown measures are effective in alleviating disease severity, but yield …

sharply with the onset of the first lockdown but recovered fairly quickly. In December 2020, levels of mental health are …

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 …

domestic violence (DV) and lockdown intensity. We use a novel measure of DV incidents that allows us to make cross … search intensity after lockdown (31%), with larger effects as more people stayed at home (measured with Google Mobility Data …). The peak of the increase in DV appears, on average, 7 weeks after the introduction of the lockdown. While we observe that …