We quantify the causal impact of human mobility restrictions, particularly the lockdown of the city of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, on the containment and delay of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). We employ a set of differencein-differences (DID) estimations to disentangle the lockdown...
Keywords:
Human Mobility, Lockdown, Social Distancing, 2019-nCoV, COVID-19, Disease Outbreak