TY - JOUR
T1 - Unequal response to mobility restrictions
T2 - evidence from COVID-19 lockdown in the city of Bogotá
AU - Castells-Quintana, David
AU - Herrera-Idarraga, Paula
AU - Quintero, Luis E.
AU - Sinisterra, Guillermo
N1 - The authors thank the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and GRANDATA for information about mobility provided in the call ‘Exploring Impact and Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean using Mobility Data’, and the UNDP team for all the data help. We also thank the research assistants Ingrid Quevedo, Daniel Jimenez and Carolina Correal who helped to prepare and process the data used for this study.
PY - 2023/8/29
Y1 - 2023/8/29
N2 - We study the effectiveness of the mobility restrictions imposed by governments to curb urban mobility. We use mobile phone-tracked movements to determine whether users left their homes and explore the role of socio-economic differences across neighbourhoods in explaining their unequal response to lockdown measures. We rely on novel data showing changes in movements in highly disaggregated spatial units in Bogotá, Colombia, before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, matched with data on socio-economic characteristics and data on non-pharmaceutical interventions implemented in the period of analysis. We find that the general lockdown imposed in the city significantly reduced mobility (by about 41 percentage points). When looking at the unequal response across locations, we find that low-income areas, with higher population density, informality and overcrowding, reacted less to mobility restrictions.
AB - We study the effectiveness of the mobility restrictions imposed by governments to curb urban mobility. We use mobile phone-tracked movements to determine whether users left their homes and explore the role of socio-economic differences across neighbourhoods in explaining their unequal response to lockdown measures. We rely on novel data showing changes in movements in highly disaggregated spatial units in Bogotá, Colombia, before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, matched with data on socio-economic characteristics and data on non-pharmaceutical interventions implemented in the period of analysis. We find that the general lockdown imposed in the city significantly reduced mobility (by about 41 percentage points). When looking at the unequal response across locations, we find that low-income areas, with higher population density, informality and overcrowding, reacted less to mobility restrictions.
KW - COVID-19
KW - development
KW - inequality
KW - mobility
KW - place-based policies
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U2 - 10.1080/17421772.2023.2235377
DO - 10.1080/17421772.2023.2235377
M3 - Article
SN - 1742-1772
VL - 19
SP - 206
EP - 224
JO - Spatial Economic Analysis
JF - Spatial Economic Analysis
IS - 2
ER -