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Previous research has documented lower vaccination rates among ethnic and racial minorities as well as foreign-born people, thus raising concerns about health inequities during pandemics. We analyzed influenza vaccination rates among children with US-born parents and those with at least one...
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externality can nevertheless mitigate the resulting distortion. The reason is that wages above the market clearing level are only …
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job centers. In a decentralized economy job-seekers do not internalize a composition externality they impose on all the …
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Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital intensive firms are the most likely to offer training unless they are...
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Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...
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In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic fatalities and drunk driving accidents. Using administrative data on the universe of vehicle collisions in Britain and a range of quasi-experimental modeling approaches, we do not...
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magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination in two settings. First, using a natural … examine a setting with large potential externality benefits: vaccination mandates for health care workers. I find that the … social benefits of vaccination are substantial, most of benefits operate through an externality, and that the benefits of …
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The presence of a heavy truck on the road can impose an externality if accidents occur that would not have otherwise … the road. This negative externality falls on all road users through higher car insurance premiums: one truck, driving for …
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Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest work. This may be because guest work is viewed as a repugnant transaction – one whose harmful side-effects might cause third parties...
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