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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 …
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effective in 2016. Employing a unique dataset of county-level vaccination and exemption rates at Kindergarten entry, we exploit … coverage for school-mandated vaccines. Relative to a diverse group of control states, our findings indicate that vaccination … exemptions in California was only partially effective in improving vaccination coverage, and may have led parents to substitute …
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Vaccination is a critical tool, along with suppression and treatment, for controlling epidemics such as SARS-CoV-2. To … maximize the impact of vaccination, doses should be allocated to the highest value targets, accounting for health and potential … vaccination using novel, local seroprevalence data from India. Second, we estimate the value of statistical life-years using …
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The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and supported by the sale of Christmas seals. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the...
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We report a large-scale randomized controlled trial designed to assess whether the partisan cue of a provaccine message from Donald Trump would induce Americans to get COVID-19 vaccines. Our study involved presenting a 27-second advertisement to millions of U.S. YouTube users in October 2021....
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to investing in parallel in multiple approaches to accelerating vaccination. We argue there are high expected social …
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vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. We leverage rich data on colleges’ vaccination policies and semester start dates, along …
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listed the times and locations of the relevant vaccination clinics. Mailings to employees randomly assigned to the treatment … intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics … and time the employee planned to be vaccinated. Vaccination rates increased when these implementation intentions prompts …
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We derive a parsimonious model of damage to corporate earnings from COVID-19. Using measures of expected damage from industry-level earnings forecast revisions, we estimate this model with nonlinear least squares and identifying restrictions related to forecast rationality. Forecasts in mid-May...
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We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non … provincial vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after … the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy …
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