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Ohio announced a Vax-a-Million Lottery in May 2021 to encourage people vaccinated. If people may avoid vaccination … because (1) they worry about rare but critical side effects or (2) they want to free ride on herd immunity, the vaccination … effectiveness of the vaccination lottery over a lump-sum transfer. Overall, vaccination lottery works better, and it particularly …
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, vaccination efficiency was lower in states with a centralized public health agency. States with a larger share of the elderly … performed using vaccination from a more recent period. Finally, a state’s legacy of corrupt activity, across two different time …
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We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination … during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory …, indicating that the crisis history of countries is positively correlated with preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination …
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study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the vaccination propensities of the unvaccinated are noteworthy, especially significant given the fact the COVID-19 … impact decisions to fully vaccinate, while greater prosperity made full vaccination more likely. We did not find robust …
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In this paper we confront the role the EU traditionally plays in the domain of health with the urgent need for collective action triggered by the corona virus pandemic. In the face of such a crisis, we argue that the joint procurement, stockpiling and allocation of medical countermeasures is a...
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is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is …
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Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
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Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for …
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Adding to the emerging body of research related to the current coronavirus crisis, this paper studies the impact of disease epidemics on the worldwide prevalence of the shadow or the underground economy. The informal sector undermines compliance with government regulations and lowers tax...
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This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
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