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intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics … listed the times and locations of the relevant vaccination clinics. Mailings to employees randomly assigned to the treatment … and time the employee planned to be vaccinated. Vaccination rates increased when these implementation intentions prompts …
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Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data … vaccination rate increases among children at school entry following an outbreak in the year prior. A large outbreak in the county …
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We analyze the financial performance of a hypothetical portfolio of 120 mRNA vaccine candidates in the preclinical stage targeting 11 emerging infectious diseases. We calibrate the simulation parameters with input from domain experts in mRNA technology and an extensive literature review. We find...
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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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Vaccination rates have a statistically significant downward effect on the Covid-19 death rate across US counties, as of … Biden-Trump vote in the 2020 election as an instrument for vaccination rates raises the magnitude of the estimate …
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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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-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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The CDC reports that 1.13 million Americans have died of COVID-19 through June of 2023. I use a model of the impact over the past three years of vaccines and private and public behavior to mitigate disease transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to address two questions....
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Vaccinating the world's population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative approaches to procurement. We find that if the goal is to...
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