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Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response
Oster, Emily - 2016
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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Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations Beyond COVID Vaccines?
D'Souza, Arielle - 2024
Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...
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Reserve System Design for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic : Some Perspectives from the Field
Pathak, Parag A.; Persad, Govind; Sönmez, Tayfun; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to rationing guidelines for scarce medical resources. This paper describes the benefits of using a reserve system over a priority system in operationalizing compromises between certain ethical goals. In the last two years, more than a dozen...
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Pandemics, Vaccines and Corporate Earnings
Hong, Harrison - 2020
We estimate a model of damage to corporate earnings from COVID-19. An unexpected pandemic lowers current earnings due to costly mitigation and reduces growth rates. Damage depends on the expected arrival of a vaccine that reverts earnings to normal. Using this model, we infer from analysts'...
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A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Clinical Trial Designs for COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates
Berry, Donald A. - 2020
We compare and contrast the expected duration and number of infections and deaths averted among several designs for clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, including traditional randomized clinical trials and adaptive and human challenge trials. Using epidemiological models calibrated to...
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Preparing for a Pandemic : Accelerating Vaccine Availability
Ahuja, Amrita; Athey, Susan; Baker, Arthur; Budish, Eric B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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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Preparing for a pandemic : accelerating vaccine availability
Ahuja, Amrita; Athey, Susan; Baker, Arthur; Budish, Eric B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on U.S. Cumulative Deaths from COVID-19
Atkeson, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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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Quantifying the Social Value of a Universal COVID-19 Vaccine and Incentivizing Its Development
Glennerster, Rachel; Kelly, Thomas; McMahon, Claire T.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A booster of the COVID-19 vaccine targeting the prevailing Omicron variant did not become available in the United States until a year after the variant was first detected. This pattern of developing, testing, and distributing a variant-specific booster may become the default response to further...
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Determinants of Financial Stress and Recovery during the Great Recession
Aizenman, Joshua - 2010
In this paper, we explore the link between stress in the domestic financial sector and the capital flight faced by countries in the 2008-9 global crisis. Both the timing of emergence of internal financial stress in developing economies, and the size of the peak-trough declines in the stock price...
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