Quantifying the human impact of Melbourne’s 111-day hard lockdown experiment on the adult population

Stefanie Schurer (), Kadir Atalay, Nick Glozier, Esperanza Vera-Toscano and Mark Wooden
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Stefanie Schurer: University of Sydney
Nick Glozier: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence, Families and Children over the Lifecourse

Nature Human Behaviour, 2023, vol. 7, issue 10, 1652-1666

Abstract: Abstract Lockdown was used worldwide to mitigate the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and was the cornerstone non-pharmaceutical intervention of zero-COVID strategies. Many previous impact evaluations of lockdowns are unreliable because lockdowns co-occurred with severe coronavirus disease related health and financial insecurities. This was not the case in Melbourne’s 111-day lockdown, which left other Australian jurisdictions unaffected. Interrogating nationally representative longitudinal survey data and quasi-experimental variation, and controlling for multiple hypothesis testing, we found that lockdown had some statistically significant, albeit small, impacts on several domains of human life. Women had lower mental health (−0.10 s.d., P = 0.043, 95% confidence interval (CI) = −0.21 to −0) and working hours (−0.13 s.d., P = 0.006, 95% CI = −0.22 to −0.04) but exercised more often (0.28 s.d., P

Date: 2023
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