Human Mobility Restrictions and the Spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China
Human Mobility Restrictions and the Spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China
We quantify the causal impact of human mobility restrictions, particularly the lockdown of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, on the containment and delay of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). We employ difference-in-differences (DID) estimations to disentangle the lockdown effect on human mobility reductions from other confounding effects including …