ArticleStructural change and economic dynamics2023
The economic impacts of COVID-19 and city lockdown: Early evidence from China.
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- What drives urban pandemic control performance in China? A configurational analysis of the resource-performance paradox.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- A study on the mental health and body weight of Chinese college students in the context of COVID-19: implications for educational practice.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Scenario construction and evolutionary analysis of nonconventional public health emergencies based on Bayesian networks.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The relationship between music listening and subjective well-being: evidence from the Chinese General Social Survey (2010-2023).Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal Dynamics of COVID-19 Pandemic City Lockdown: Insights From Nighttime Light Remote Sensing.GeoHealth · 2024Article
- An Engineering Alternative to Lockdown During COVID-19 and Other Airborne Infectious Disease Pandemics: Feasibility Study.JMIR biomedical engineering · 2024Article
- The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the world's major economies: based on a multi-country and multi-sector CGE model.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The optimisation of public health emergency governance: a simulation study based on COVID-19 pandemic control policy.Globalization and health · 2023Article
- Compound impact of COVID-19, economy and climate on the spatial distribution of global agriculture and food security.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
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Abstract
As the first major developing country heavily struck by the COVID-19 pandemic, China adopted the world's most stringent lockdown interventions to contain the virus spread. Using macro- and micro-level data, this paper shows that both the pandemic and lockdown policies have had negative and significant impacts on the economy. Gross regional product (GRP) fell by 9.5 and 0.3 percentage points in cities with and without lockdown interventions, respectively. These impacts represent a dramatic recession from China's average growth of 6.74% before the pandemic. The results indicate that lockdown explains 2.8 percentage points of the GDP loss. We also document significant spill-over effects of the pandemic in adjacent areas but no such effects of lockdown. Reduced labor mobility, land supply, and entrepreneurship are among the most significant mechanisms underpinning the impacts of the pandemic and lockdown. Cities with higher share of secondary industry, higher traffic intensity, lower population density, lower internet access, and lower fiscal capacity suffered more. However, these cities seem to have recovered well from the recession and quickly closed the economic gap in the aftermath of the pandemic and city lockdown. Our findings have broader implications for the global interventions in pandemic containment.
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