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 …

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown on criminal activity in the City of …