Effectiveness of COVID-19 interventions: How individuals shaped the pandemic and how the pandemic shaped individuals

Florian Ege*

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: ThesisPh.D. thesis

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Abstract

Understanding the effectiveness and impact of restrictions intro-duced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is an important but complicated task. Despite the pandemic being an epidemiological event, social aspects such as the behavioral responses of citizens are crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the effectiveness of the interventions taken to limit its impact on society.
The following PhD dissertation presents studies analyzing the effectiveness of specific interventions taken and on the impacts the pandemic had on society.

Approaching the topic from an interdisciplinary perspective, the dissertation combines approaches and methods from political sci-ence, econometrics and demography to shed light on particular aspects of interest.

The findings of the dissertation suggest that interventions taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic were effective in reducing SARS-CoV-2 infections, preventing (excess) deaths and limiting its impact on overall mortality distributions. Behavioral aspects, such as citizens compliance, are approximated by measurable in-termediary outcomes such as data on citizens mobility or testing rates. These intermediary outcomes are considered as crucial ele-ments when looking to link a COVID-19 intervention to its de-sired outcome and critical in making a convincing argument on its causality. Despite the impact of the pandemic on mortality, the dissertation finds that regularity in the relationship between the distributions of periods and cohorts tends to be unaffected by such shocks.
Original languageEnglish
Awarding Institution
  • University of Southern Denmark
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Wulfgramm, Melike, Principal supervisor
  • Missov, Trifon, Co-supervisor
Date of defence18. Jun 2024
Publisher
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7. Jun 2024

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