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A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and … three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination … coverage. Retrospective reminders are primarily effective for families with small children and when sent out close to the …
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children, could have potentially serious side-effects. As the controversy set in, uptake of the MMR vaccine by more educated …
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One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new health-related information. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) controversy provides a case where, for a short period, some publicized research suggested that the...
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effective in 2016. Employing a unique dataset of county-level vaccination and exemption rates at Kindergarten entry, we exploit … coverage for school-mandated vaccines. Relative to a diverse group of control states, our findings indicate that vaccination … exemptions in California was only partially effective in improving vaccination coverage, and may have led parents to substitute …
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Khaleghian studies the impact of political decentralization on childhood immunization, an essential public service provided in almost all countries. He examines the relationship empirically using a time-series data set of 140 low- and middle-income countries from 1980 to 1997. The author finds...
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effective in 2016. Employing a unique dataset of county-level vaccination and exemption rates at Kindergarten entry, we exploit … coverage for school-mandated vaccines. Relative to a diverse group of control states, our findings indicate that vaccination … exemptions in California was only partially effective in improving vaccination coverage, and may have led parents to substitute …
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In 2012, a labour market reform in Italy known as the Fornero Law substantially reduced firing restrictions for open-ended contracts in the case of firms with more than 15 employees. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above...
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Childhood vaccination has been promoted as a global intervention aimed at improving child survival and health, through … of child vaccination among and within countries. In this paper, we examine rural-urban inequalities in child … and household characteristics on a child’s immunization status. The results show that children in rural areas are more …
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