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Refueling a quiet fire : old truthers and new discontent in the wake of Covid-19
Beccari, Gabriele; Giaccherini, Matilde; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2023
This paper investigates the factors that contributed to the proliferation of online COVID skepticism on Twitter across Italian municipalities. We demonstrate that socio-demographic factors are likely to mitigate the emergence of skepticism, while populist political leanings were more likely to...
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Prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector
Jussila, Elina; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Verho, Jouko - 2022
We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which … private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe the expensive medication. The result holds after controlling for … our cases, we further find that the same physicians prescribe different medication when working in different sectors …
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Explaining vaccine hesitancy : a Covid-19 study of the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2022
related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that more prosperous states and states with more elderly and physicians have …
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Drivers of Covid-19 vaccinations : vaccine administration and delivery efficiency in the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021
health workers, including physicians and nurses, did not significantly impact administration or efficiency. On the other hand …
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Globalization and outbreak of COVID-19 : an empirical analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, Mehdi; Fereidouni, … - 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, and associated deaths in more than 100 countries. Our ordinary least squares multivariate regressions show that countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization...
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V for vaccines and variants
Delli Gatti, Domenico; Reissl, Severin; Turco, Enrico - 2021
We employ a new version of the ABC macro-epidemiological agent based model presented in Delli Gatti and Reissl (2020) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the role of a mitigating factor, reducing the frequency and the...
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Vaccination lottery
Kim, Duk Gyoo - 2021
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 lottery may work better or worse than a lump-sum transfer...
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Social distancing, vaccination and evolution of Covid-19 transmission rates in Europe
Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - 2022
This paper provides estimates of COVID-19 effective reproduction numbers and explains their evolution for selected European countries since the start of the pandemic taking account of changes in voluntary and government mandated social distancing, incentives to comply, vaccination and the...
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Covid-19 vaccination : the role of crisis experience
Gründler, Klaus; Hackenberger, Armin; Harter, Anina; … - 2021
We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory and introduce a novel crisis experience index. Evidence...
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Information and vaccine hesitancy : the role of broadband internet
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2024
We examine the effect of internet diffusion on the uptake of an important public health intervention: the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. We study England between 2000 and 2011 when internet diffusion spread rapidly and there was a high profile medical article (falsely) linking the MMR...
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