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SUBMITTER: Borri N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8420205 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Borri Nicola N Drago Francesco F Santantonio Chiara C Sobbrio Francesco F
Health economics 20210711 10
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak, the Italian Government imposed an economic lockdown on March 22, 2020, and ordered the closing of all non-essential economic activities. This paper estimates the causal effects of this measure on mortality by Covid-19 and on mobility patterns. The identification of the causal effects exploits the variation in the active population across municipalities induced by the economic lockdown. The difference-in-differences empirical design compares outcomes in munic ...[more]