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Covid-19 restriction policies and shopping streets
Policymakers around the world are enforcing mobility restriction policies such as lockdowns, facemask requirements and social distancing to curb the spread of Covid-19. While these policies are effective in preventing the spread of virus, the economic implications are not well understood. We contrib...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9337638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35905134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267160 |
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author | Koster, Hans R. A. van Ommeren, Jos Tang, Cheng Keat Bras, Nander |
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description | Policymakers around the world are enforcing mobility restriction policies such as lockdowns, facemask requirements and social distancing to curb the spread of Covid-19. While these policies are effective in preventing the spread of virus, the economic implications are not well understood. We contribute to the literature by examining the impact of these policies on the offline retail sector. Specifically, we measure the effects of these policies on the daily number of shoppers passing by, which we refer to as ‘footfall’, along major shopping streets in Netherlands. We rely on unique proprietary Wifi data to accurately measure footfall. Our findings imply that all these policies attribute to a non-trivial reduction in footfall levels along shopping streets. While lockdowns led to a 50% reduction in footfall along major shopping streets, shopping streets faced with facemask regulations also experience a 25% drop in human traffic. A reduction in footfall translates into a substantial reduction in retail income of between 12% and 25%. |
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spelling | pubmed-93376382022-07-30 Covid-19 restriction policies and shopping streets Koster, Hans R. A. van Ommeren, Jos Tang, Cheng Keat Bras, Nander PLoS One Research Article Policymakers around the world are enforcing mobility restriction policies such as lockdowns, facemask requirements and social distancing to curb the spread of Covid-19. While these policies are effective in preventing the spread of virus, the economic implications are not well understood. We contribute to the literature by examining the impact of these policies on the offline retail sector. Specifically, we measure the effects of these policies on the daily number of shoppers passing by, which we refer to as ‘footfall’, along major shopping streets in Netherlands. We rely on unique proprietary Wifi data to accurately measure footfall. Our findings imply that all these policies attribute to a non-trivial reduction in footfall levels along shopping streets. While lockdowns led to a 50% reduction in footfall along major shopping streets, shopping streets faced with facemask regulations also experience a 25% drop in human traffic. A reduction in footfall translates into a substantial reduction in retail income of between 12% and 25%. Public Library of Science 2022-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9337638/ /pubmed/35905134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267160 Text en © 2022 Koster et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Koster, Hans R. A. van Ommeren, Jos Tang, Cheng Keat Bras, Nander Covid-19 restriction policies and shopping streets |
title | Covid-19 restriction policies and shopping streets |
title_full | Covid-19 restriction policies and shopping streets |
title_fullStr | Covid-19 restriction policies and shopping streets |
title_full_unstemmed | Covid-19 restriction policies and shopping streets |
title_short | Covid-19 restriction policies and shopping streets |
title_sort | covid-19 restriction policies and shopping streets |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9337638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35905134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267160 |
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