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influence of vaccine-skeptic GPs on their patients' decisions to get a COVID-19 vaccination. We identify vaccine-skeptic GPs …-skeptic GPs reduced the vaccination rate by 5.6 percentage points. This estimate implies that they discouraged 7.9% of the …
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We quantify the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on psychological well-being using information from a large-scale panel … vaccination increases psychological well-being by 0.12 standard deviation, compensating for around one half of the overall … mentally distressed individuals, supporting the prioritization of this group in vaccination roll-outs. …
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As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates … than Western European countries. Can institutional inheritance explain, at least in part, this heterogeneity in vaccination … Communist regimes would still affect individuals' preferences for Covid-19 vaccination. …
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We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in … find that countries perceived as less corrupt and more liberal experience higher vaccination rates. Furthermore, they are … less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is …
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We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take … vaccination rate for individuals aged less than 65. We show that this effect is not entirely driven by an income channel, but also … depends on the expected benefits of vaccination. The analysis on health outcomes shows that the program reduces the likelihood …
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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 …
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Although COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, many adults are hesitant or unwilling to use them. Drawing on data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Corona survey, we examine the correlates of vaccine uptake among Europeans ages 50 and older. We find that...
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A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and … three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination … recommended vaccination age. Digital and postal reminders are equally effective. Prospective reminders increase timely …
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' willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our empirical analysis is based on data … willingness to get vaccinated, but these results are less pronounced and less robust. Our results indicate that vaccination …
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We build a Susceptible-Infected-Vaccinated Economic two-sector growth model to study the evolution of inequality in an economy with two groups of workers, who are differently exposed to a transmissible disease. We show that the economy can lead to various scenarios in the long run, which range...
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