Did Lockdown Work? An Economist's Cross-Country Comparison

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Did Lockdown Work? An Economist's Cross-Country Comparison. / Bjørnskov, Christian.

In: CESifo Economic Studies, Vol. 67, No. 3, 09.2021, p. 318-331.

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title = "Did Lockdown Work? An Economist's Cross-Country Comparison",

abstract = "I explore the association between the severity of lockdown policies in the first half of 2020 and mortality rates. Using two indices from the Blavatnik Centre's COVID-19 policy measures and comparing weekly mortality rates from 24 European countries in the first halves of 2017-2020, addressing policy endogeneity in two different ways, and taking timing into account, I find no clear association between lockdown policies and mortality development. ",

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Department of Economics and Business Economics