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We review economic arguments for using public policy to accelerate vaccine supply during a pandemic. Rapidly vaccinating a large share of the global population helps avoid economic, mortality, and social losses, which in the case of Covid-19 mounted into trillions of dollars. However,...
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A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
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-19 vaccination take-up rates and COVID-19 health outcomes, we leverage exogenous, pre-existing variation in locations of … presence of a participating retail pharmacy vaccination site in a county leads to an approximately 26% increase in the per …-up decisions. Increases in county-level per capita participating retail pharmacies lead to an increase in COVID-19 vaccination …
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This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on food insecurity in the United States, using data from the … instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of vaccination decision. We find that vaccination had a substantial impact on food … vaccination policy can be effective in alleviating the fiscal burden of the pandemic on the government. Furthermore, our analysis …
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pandemic preparedness and response. Rapid vaccination during pandemics can significantly reduce mortality, economic losses, and …
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The global COVID-19 vaccination campaign is the largest public health campaign in history, with over 2 billion people … understood. Leveraging the staggered rollout of vaccines, we find that the vaccination campaign across 141 countries averted 2 … vaccination in each country proportional to its population, would have saved roughly 670,000 more lives. However, this …
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leverage this variation in vaccination rates to show that the influenza vaccine reduces outpatient and emergency department … increase vaccination rates and reduce healthcare expenditures …
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between the vaccination rates of those with a college education relative to those with a high school education. Finally, our …
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the vaccination uptake in treated areas; however, the community health workers component had an additional effect on … mothers' religious affiliation might constitute a barrier for the vaccination uptake of the most remote and vulnerable …
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-related benefits that would have accrued if these vaccination requirements had been implemented as intended. Compared with the … vaccination rates observed in January 2022, we find that the mandates could have led to 15 million additional vaccinated … policymakers. In scenarios involving the emergence of a novel, more transmissible variant, against which vaccination and previous …
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