ArticlePloS one2021
How effective are social distancing policies? Evidence on the fight against COVID-19.
Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effectiveness of social distancing measures and lockdowns for reducing transmission of COVID-19 in non-healthcare, community-based settings.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2023Pooled it
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- Built environment factors moderate pandemic fatigue in social distance during the COVID-19 pandemic: A nationwide longitudinal study in the United States.Landscape and urban planning · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of measures to preserve labour and childbirth companionship at the times of COVID-19 outbreak.Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Article
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- Modeling COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics: A Bibliometric Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- The Association between the Sense of Coherence and the Self-Reported Adherence to Guidelines during the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- A longitudinal approach to understanding boredom during pandemics: The predictive roles of trauma and emotion dysregulation.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Social capital and the spread of covid-19: Insights from european countries.Journal of health economics · 2021Article
- Labor market effects of COVID-19 in Sweden and its neighbors: Evidence from administrative data.Kyklos (Online) · 2021Article
- The Covid-19 containment effects of public health measures: A spatial difference-in-differences approach.Journal of regional science · 2021Article
- Changing readiness to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 steered long-term epidemic and social trajectories.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the demand for health care and on mortality: evidence from COVID-19 in Scandinavia.Journal of population economics · 2021Article
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Abstract
To fight the spread of COVID-19, many countries implemented social distancing policies. This is the first paper that examines the effects of the German social distancing policies on behavior and the epidemic's spread. Exploiting the staggered timing of COVID-19 outbreaks in extended event-study models, we find that the policies heavily reduced mobility and contagion. In comparison to a no-social-distancing benchmark, within three weeks, the policies avoided 84% of the potential COVID-19 cases (point estimate: 499.3K) and 66% of the potential fatalities (5.4K). The policies' relative effects were smaller for individuals above 60 and in rural areas.
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