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Defense spending accounts for a large share of the budget in many countries, but the value of the resulting public good - national defense - has so far escaped assessment. Much of the literature has instead considered indirect benefits of defense spending in terms of greater economic growth or...
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The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners, people...
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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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result in lower vaccination hesitancies, ceteris paribus. …
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Whether or not to vaccinate one’s child is a decision that a parent may approach in several ways. The vaccination game … parents believe may accompany vaccination. The standard game-theoretic approach assumes that parents make decisions according … each child’s vaccination generates for others, the Nash equilibrium suffers from a free-rider problem. However, in more …
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. 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 …
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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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Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of … conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive peer effect regarding vaccination behavior arises. We conduct two empirical … studies using Japanese data in these models. The first empirical analysis, using a data set on the vaccination behavior of …
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We investigate the effect of interpersonal and institutional trust on COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy. We ask whether … interpersonal and institutional trust predict COVID-19 vaccination delay and refusal. We use an unprecedently rich and … correlation with vaccine hesitancy. As trust increases, vaccination hesitancy decreases and so does the time it takes people to …
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differences across counties with low- and high vaccination rates. Policy implications are discussed. …
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