Ensaios sobre restrições de mobilidade, distanciamento social e lockdown: a pandemia do SARS-COVID nos estados Brasileiros

Abstract

The general objective of this dissertation is to study potential relationships between individuals' mobility, social isolation severity and economic freedom during the pandemic period. The first essay has the specific objective of investigating the relationship between the severity of social isolation (policy), the individual’s mobility (a variable that should be affected by the policy) and crime (side effect of the policy) in the case of Brazilian states. The results indicate that policymakers were influenced by mobility during the COVID pandemic period. Additionally, there is evidence of simultaneity between Mobility and Homicides and a weak influence of social isolation on the individual’s mobility. The second essay studies individual and economic freedoms from the context of the COVID pandemic. The results suggest that states with greater economic freedom reacted with greater rigidity in implementing social isolation policies in the period analyzed.