TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Askitas, Nikos
AU  - Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
AU  - Verheyden, Bertrand
        TI  - Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19
        PY  - 2020/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13293
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13293
        AB  - We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries. Taking into account the contemporaneous presence of multiple interventions, we remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by changing population mobility patterns in a manner consistent with time-use and epidemiologically relevant considerations. We are thus able to shed light on the mechanisms through which confinement measures contribute to "flattening the curve".
        KW  - R0
KW  - mobility
KW  - pandemic
KW  - 2019 novel coronavirus
KW  - lockdown
KW  - confinement measures
KW  - quarantine
KW  - transmission
KW  - behavior
KW  - incidence
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - compliance
KW  - non-pharmaceutical interventions
KW  - NPI
KW  - basic reproduction number
KW  - SIR model
        ER  -