
Do Lockdowns Work?
Not Another Politics Podcast
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The Effect of Shelter in Place Orders on Behavior in Pandemic
It's very hard to tease out the diferet through these things. What is generating the effect, the change in be of people, as opposed t the change in policy? And it's possible, at least, that there weren't real health benefit, in returns, in terms of the health benefits, from changes in actual individual behavior associated with this policy. I think you're right in some sense that it could be the shelter in place orders changed behavior, but they changed the kind of behavior that didn't matter for pandemic. But in fact, even with the g p s data, we find little evidencethahat there was an effect on behavior"
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