Chen, Liming; Raitzer, David; Hasan, Rana; Lavado, Rouselle - 2021
We use cross-country panel data to examine the effects of a variety of nonpharmaceutical interventions used by … governments to suppress the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We find that while lockdown measures lead to reductions in … of the disease emerge, the use of more targeted and better incentivized measures can help keep the epidemic controlled at …