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cord-219681-83p1ujl4	Gathergood, John	The English Patient: Evaluating Local Lockdowns Using Real-Time COVID-19&Consumption Data	2020-10-08		.txt	text/plain	5701	321	56	We find UK 'local lockdowns' of cities and small regions, focused on limiting how many people a household can interact with and in what settings, are effective in turning the tide on rising positive COVID-19 cases. Using a difference-in-difference methodology, we estimate the impact of local lockdowns imposed in the late summer of 2020 on a number of UK cities, examining the effects on both containment of cases and consumer spending. (2020) using US fintech data and following this Opportunity Insights (Chetty et al., 2020a,b) produced 3 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52934822 4 We typically observe common pre-trends between control and treatment groups, however, we do observe noticeable increases in the number of positive COVID-19 cases for the treatment groups just before and after local lockdowns. On aggregate we observe the sharp fall in UK credit card spending near the time of the spike in Covid-19 cases and national lockdown announcement on 23 March 2020 and then a fairly steady recovery May -August.	./cache/cord-219681-83p1ujl4.txt	./txt/cord-219681-83p1ujl4.txt