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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 …
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In this paper we present a theory of health investment when there are multiple causes of death. Since there are several risks competing for one's life, the health investments in avoiding different causes of death are not independent in general. We analyze the optimal investment rules and the...
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result in lower vaccination hesitancies, ceteris paribus. …
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differences across counties with low- and high vaccination rates. Policy implications are discussed. …
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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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We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children have a … roughly 8% higher survival probability than women without children. …
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, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant … children's regular growth check-ups and deworming treatments, consistent with an increased awareness of children's weight and …
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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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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
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