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Lights Out ? COVID-19 Containment Policies and Economic Activity (English)

This paper estimates the impact of a differential relaxation of COVID-19 containment policies on aggregate economic activity in India. Following a uniform national lockdown, the Government of India classified all districts into three zones with varying containment measures in May 2020. Using a difference-in-differences approach, the paper estimates the impact of these restrictions on nighttime light intensity, a standard high-frequency proxy for economic...
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Beyer,Robert Carl Michael; Jain,Tarun; Sinha,Sonalika.

Lights Out ? COVID-19 Containment Policies and Economic Activity (English). COVID-19 (Coronavirus)|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9485 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/604661606761245743

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