D. Aromí, María Paula Bonel, Julian Cristia, Martín Llada, Juan Pereira, Xiomara Pulido, Julieth Santamaria
{"title":"#StayAtHome: Social Distancing Policies and Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean","authors":"D. Aromí, María Paula Bonel, Julian Cristia, Martín Llada, Juan Pereira, Xiomara Pulido, Julieth Santamaria","doi":"10.31389/eco.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.4","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the impact on human mobility of social distancing policies implemented in 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries in March 2020. We use cell phone data and variation across countries regarding the adoption of these policies and their timing to estimate effects on the percentage of people traveling more than 1 kilometer per day. Results indicate that lockdowns reduced mobility by 10 percentage points during the 15 days following its implementation. This accounts for a third of the decline in mobility between the first week in March and the first week in April in countries that implemented lockdowns. The effect during the second week of implementation is 28% lower compared to the effect documented during the first week. Additionally, we find that school closures reduced mobility by 4 percentage points, but no effects were found for bars and restaurants closures and the cancellation of public events.\u0000 \u0000JEL Classification Codes: C23, H12, I18","PeriodicalId":100390,"journal":{"name":"Economía Informa","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79842892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcela Eslava, Oscar Becerra, J. Cárdenas, M. Isaacs, Daniel Mejía
{"title":"The Socioeconomics of COVID and Lockdowns Outside\u0000 Advanced Economies: The Case of Bogota","authors":"Marcela Eslava, Oscar Becerra, J. Cárdenas, M. Isaacs, Daniel Mejía","doi":"10.31389/eco.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.7","url":null,"abstract":"Bogota is unique in recording and reporting the socioeconomic status of COVID-19\u0000 patients. As others in Latin America and Asia, the city imposed a blanket lockdown\u0000 before contagion picked up in early 2020 and kept it in place for six months. We\u0000 document that, during that period, being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 was over\u0000 eight times more likely for an individual in the lowest group of the socioeconomic\u0000 classification, compared to one in the highest. We relate this to higher exposure to\u0000 contagion, by presenting evidence that people at the bottom of this classification are:\u0000 1) Less likely to be in occupations fit for telework; 2) Disproportionately hit by the\u0000 economic crisis; 3) Subject to more crowded environments; 4) Less likely to recognize a\u0000 high risk of contagion. The pandemic has widened socioeconomic gaps, in one of the\u0000 world’s most unequal societies.","PeriodicalId":100390,"journal":{"name":"Economía Informa","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88711345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}