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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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effective reproduction numbers by up to 90%. Meanwhile, many countries are rolling out vaccination programmes, but at varying … speeds. Hence the race is on to beat the variants with the vaccines. Vaccination is very powerful at reducing virus … to raise GDP by about 4-5%. Quick vaccination would thus help limit the extent to which containment policies need to be …
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We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination …, indicating that the crisis history of countries is positively correlated with preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination …
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increase vaccination and testing: “choice architecture” and monetary compensations. Choice architecture has the goal of … and are already in use by some organizations. Yet there is the concern that compensations may decrease vaccination if …
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drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US …, 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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to study how the design of the vaccine approval procedure affects public attitudes towards vaccination. Compared to an … Emergency Use Authorization, choosing the more thorough Accelerated Authorization approval procedure increases vaccination … key mediator of treatment effects on vaccination intentions …
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) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the … vaccination becomes available, therefore, the mitigating factor of the latter is at least partially offset by the former. A new …
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Millions of people refuse COVID-19 vaccination. Using original data from two surveys in nine OECD countries, we analyze …
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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 … and availability of the coronavirus vaccines would have been better. Interestingly, new covid cases did not significantly …
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This paper reexamines the design of the optimal lockdown strategy by paying attention to its robustness to the postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social criterion can, under some conditions, imply a COVID19...
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