A New Dataset for Local and National COVID-19-Related Restrictions in Italy

Francesco Conteduca and Alessandro Borin ()
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Alessandro Borin: Bank of Italy

Italian Economic Journal: A Continuation of Rivista Italiana degli Economisti and Giornale degli Economisti, 2022, vol. 8, issue 2, No 7, 435-470

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents a novel dataset of non-pharmaceutical interventions adopted by Italian authorities to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic at the national and local levels. The dataset follows the structure of the Oxford Coronavirus Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT; Hale et al. in Nat Human Behav 5:529–538, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01079-8 , 2021)). We include several novelties with respect to the original source. First, we tailor the classification of provisions to the measures adopted in Italy. Second, we collect detailed information on local restrictions in the country, including lockdowns and school closures. Third, we apply a bottom-up approach to construct population-weighted average stringency indexes (Italian Stringency Indexes, ItSIs) at the provincial, regional, and country-wide levels. While expanding the geographical coverage of the stringency indicators, we preserve the comparability of the ItSIs with the original stringency index published in the OxCGRT. As an application, we show that the correlations of our ItSI with community mobility indicators and various measures of economic activity are higher than those obtained with the OxCGRT indicator.

Keywords: Covid-19; Non-pharmaceutical interventions; Italian stringency index; Local restrictions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H12 H51 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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