@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp14187,
            	author={Liu, Yanyan and Ma, Shuang and Mu, Ren},
            	title={Uneven Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Post-lockdown Human Mobility Across Chinese Cities},
            	year={2021},
	month={Mar},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={14187},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14187},
	abstract={How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference-in-difference-in-differences framework, we find that mobility in most cities resumed to normal six weeks after reopening. In contrast, the epicenter cities, those with the worst outbreaks, were slow to recover; twelve weeks after reopening, mobility had not returned to the pre-pandemic levels. We provide suggestive evidence that relatively undiminished pandemic concerns may have slowed down mobility recovery in the epicenter region. Our findings imply that a severe pandemic experience impedes post-lockdown mobility recovery. From a policy perspective, this study suggests that it is important to successfully contain the pandemic to achieve a faster post-lockdown recovery.},
	keywords={COVID-19;population mobility;post-lockdown;China},
            }