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 …

lockdown corrects this externality, allowing policymakers to buy time to expand the testing scale so as to preserve the testing …

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 …

risk exposure affect the welfare effect of lockdowns? This paper examines the 'welcomed lockdown' hypothesis, namely the … differential timing of the effect of the pandemic across European countries, and the different stringency of lockdown to examine … anxiety and depression are explained by mortality and stringency of lockdown measures using ad event study that draws on …