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 …

Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their … magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination in two settings. First, using a natural … experiment, I estimate the impacts of aggregate vaccination rates on mortality and work absences in the United States. Second, I …

) 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 …

Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses …, but low take-up rates and vaccination unintentionally causing moral hazard may decrease its benefits. We ran a natural … field experiment in cooperation with a bank in Ecuador, where we modified its vaccination campaign. Experimentally …