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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Lockdown: Evidence from COVID-19 Prevention and Control in China
Utilizing national migration data regarding the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), this paper employs a difference-in-differences approach to empirically analyze the relationship between human mobility and the transmission of infectious diseases in China. We show that national human mobi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33424220 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-020-09711-6 |
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author | Zhang, Xiaoming Luo, Weijie Zhu, Jingci |
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description | Utilizing national migration data regarding the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), this paper employs a difference-in-differences approach to empirically analyze the relationship between human mobility and the transmission of infectious diseases in China. We show that national human mobility restrictions ascribed to the first-level public health emergency response policy effectively reduce both intercity and intracity migration intensities, thus leading to a declining scale of human mobility, which improves the effectiveness in controlling the epidemic. Human mobility restrictions have greater influences on cities with better economic development, denser populations, or larger passenger volumes. Moreover, mobility restriction measures are found to be better implemented in regions with increased public awareness, or with provincial leaders who have healthcare crisis management experience, local administrative experience, or the opportunity to serve a consecutive term. |
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spelling | pubmed-77842232021-01-05 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Lockdown: Evidence from COVID-19 Prevention and Control in China Zhang, Xiaoming Luo, Weijie Zhu, Jingci J Chin Polit Sci Research Article Utilizing national migration data regarding the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), this paper employs a difference-in-differences approach to empirically analyze the relationship between human mobility and the transmission of infectious diseases in China. We show that national human mobility restrictions ascribed to the first-level public health emergency response policy effectively reduce both intercity and intracity migration intensities, thus leading to a declining scale of human mobility, which improves the effectiveness in controlling the epidemic. Human mobility restrictions have greater influences on cities with better economic development, denser populations, or larger passenger volumes. Moreover, mobility restriction measures are found to be better implemented in regions with increased public awareness, or with provincial leaders who have healthcare crisis management experience, local administrative experience, or the opportunity to serve a consecutive term. Springer Netherlands 2021-01-05 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7784223/ /pubmed/33424220 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-020-09711-6 Text en © Journal of Chinese Political Science/Association of Chinese Political Studies 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Zhang, Xiaoming Luo, Weijie Zhu, Jingci Top-Down and Bottom-Up Lockdown: Evidence from COVID-19 Prevention and Control in China |
title | Top-Down and Bottom-Up Lockdown: Evidence from COVID-19 Prevention and Control in China |
title_full | Top-Down and Bottom-Up Lockdown: Evidence from COVID-19 Prevention and Control in China |
title_fullStr | Top-Down and Bottom-Up Lockdown: Evidence from COVID-19 Prevention and Control in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Top-Down and Bottom-Up Lockdown: Evidence from COVID-19 Prevention and Control in China |
title_short | Top-Down and Bottom-Up Lockdown: Evidence from COVID-19 Prevention and Control in China |
title_sort | top-down and bottom-up lockdown: evidence from covid-19 prevention and control in china |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33424220 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-020-09711-6 |
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