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 …

) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the …, increasing the volatility of epidemic curves and worsening the macroeconomic outlook. If a more contagious variant emerges after … vaccination becomes available, therefore, the mitigating factor of the latter is at least partially offset by the former. A new …

result in lower vaccination hesitancies, ceteris paribus. …

. There has been significant cross-country variation in the vaccination of people against COVID-19. In this study, we focus on … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …

distancing, incentives to comply, vaccination and the emergence of new variants. Evidence based on panel data modeling indicates …

is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is …

advances in the treatment of chronic diseases. Finally, we use the model to investigate behaviour and long-term health outcomes …

questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique combi … individually-targeted incentives, though all boost vaccinations. There are no unintended consequences on future vaccination or … heterogeneities based on vaccination attitudes and incentivized economic preferences. Further, administrative data on relatives shows …