The Impact of Stay-At-Home Mandates on Uncertainty and Sentiments: Quasi-Experimental Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus coincided with lockdown measures, it is challenging to distinguish public reactions to lockdowns from responses to COVID-19 itself. Beyond the direct impact on health, lockdowns may have worsened public sentiment toward politics and the economy or even heightened dissatisfaction with health care, imposing a significant cost on both the public and policy makers.

Objective

This study aims to analyze the causal effect of COVID-19 lockdown policies on various dimensions of sentiment and uncertainty, using the Italian lockdown of February 2020 as a quasi-experiment. At the time of implementation, communities inside and just outside the lockdown area were equally exposed to COVID-19, enabling a quasi-random distribution of the lockd

SUBMITTER: Biliotti C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11920662 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature