When and how do business shutdowns work? Evidence from Italy's first COVID-19 wave:

Governments around the world have adopted unprecedented policies to deal with COVID-19. This paper zooms in on business shutdowns and investigates their effectiveness in reducing mortality. We leverage highly granular death registry data for almost 5,000 Italian municipalities in a diff-in-diff appr...

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1. Verfasser: Ciminelli, Gabriele (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Garcia-Mandicó, Sílvia (MitwirkendeR)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Paris OECD Publishing 2021
Schriftenreihe:OECD Economics Department Working Papers
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Zusammenfassung:Governments around the world have adopted unprecedented policies to deal with COVID-19. This paper zooms in on business shutdowns and investigates their effectiveness in reducing mortality. We leverage highly granular death registry data for almost 5,000 Italian municipalities in a diff-in-diff approach that allows us to mitigate endogeneity concerns credibly. Our results, which are robust to controlling for a host of co-factors, offer strong evidence that business shutdowns are very effective in reducing mortality. We calculate that the death toll from the first wave of COVID-19 in Italy may have been about twice as high in their absence. Our findings also highlight that timeliness is key - by acting one week earlier, the death toll may have been reduced by up to an additional 25%. Finally, shutdowns should be targeted. Closing service activities with a high degree of interpersonal contact saves the most lives. Shutting down production activities - while substantially reducing mobility - only has mild effects on mortality
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DOI:10.1787/095b5d62-en

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