Effective penalties for violating lockdown

Nuffield DPhil in Politics Seung Hoon Chae and co-author Hyung Jun Park assess whether the imposition of fines in Germany can help mitigate the spread of coronavirus using a quasi-experimental model.

(Seung Hoon Chae and Hyung Jun Park, ‘Effectiveness of Penalties for Lockdown Violations During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany’. Published in American Journal of Public Health 110: 1844-1849, doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305903)