The "Great Lockdown": Inactive workers and mortality by Covid-19.

ABSTRACT: In response to the Covid-19 outbreak, the Italian Government imposed an economic lockdown on March 22, 2020, and ordered the closing of all non-essential economic activities. This paper estimates the causal effects of this measure on mortality by Covid-19 and on mobility patterns. The identification of the causal effects exploits the variation in the active population across municipalities induced by the economic lockdown. The difference-in-differences empirical design compares outcomes in municipalities above and below the median variation in the share of active population before and after the lockdown within a province, also controlling for municipality-specific dynamics, daily shocks at the provincial level, and municipal unobserved characteristics. Our results show that the intensity o

SUBMITTER: Borri N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8420205 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature