The Efficacy of Lockdown Against COVID-19: A Cross-Country Panel Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been much debate about the effectiveness of lockdown measures in containing COVID-19, and their appropriateness given the economic and social cost they entail. To the best of our knowledge, no existing contribution to the literature has attempted to gauge the effectiveness of lockdown measures over time in a longitudinal cross-country perspective.

Objectives

This paper aims to fill the gap in the literature by assessing, at an international level, the effect of lockdown measures (or the lack of such measures) on the numbers of new infections. Given this policy's expected change in effectiveness over time, we also measure the effect of having a lockdown implemented over a given number of days (from 7 to 20 days).

Methods

We pursue our objectives by

SUBMITTER: Alfano V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7268966 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature