Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and Covid-19

Nikos Askitas (), Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Bertrand Verheyden

No 8338, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: 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”.

Keywords: Covid-19; 2019 novel coronavirus; pandemic; mobility; confinement measures; lockdown; quarantine; transmission; behaviour; incidence; compliance; non-pharmaceutical interventions; NPI; basic reproduction number; R0; SIR model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 I12 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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