Empirical work described in this paper explains the daily evolution of the reproduction rate, R, and mobility for a … large effect on reducing R, they also have effect on mobility and, by extension, economic activity. A wide-ranging package … lockdown while containing the spread of the virus. Such policies may, however, need to be complemented by selective containment …

population mobility patterns across 135 countries. Taking into account the contemporaneous presence of multiple interventions, we … remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by … changing population mobility patterns in a manner consistent with time-use and epidemiologically relevant considerations. We …

population mobility patterns across 135 countries. Taking into account the contemporaneous presence of multiple interventions, we … remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by … changing population mobility patterns in a manner consistent with time-use and epidemiologically relevant considerations. We …

alternative evolution of the pandemic, assuming that states extended the lockdown measures until daily new cases reach the levels … of European countries after their lockdown measures were relaxed. In the baseline simulation, we find that cases and …

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 …

health and economic factors in a pandemic and how appropriate “lockdown”, income transfer, and loan policies could be …

testing and vaccination, policy response also varied from harsh implementation of lockdown during the initial phase to limp …

We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity … discovery, learning effects in the health care sector, and the severity of output losses due to a lockdown. In our baseline …