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 …

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 …

We investigate whether COVID-19 deaths that occurred before vaccination rollouts impact subsequent vaccination take …-up. We use data on local vaccination rates and COVID-19-related deaths from England measured at high geographic granularity …. We find that vaccination take-up as of November 2021 is positively associated with pre-vaccine COVID-19-related deaths …

diseases remains a challenge. Can delivery of information regarding the benefits of vaccination through personal home visits by … information about COVID-19 vaccines and promote vaccination through one-on-one meetings, using an interpersonal behavioral change … the overall vaccination take-up is quite moderate and that there are no differences in vaccination outcomes across the …

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 …

campaign, unaffected by media cases, we show that media reporting decreases flu vaccination by about 2.5% (78 fewer …We study the role of media reporting of alleged adverse effects of influenza vaccination on adults' (aged 50 or more …) decisions to vaccinate against the flu. We exploit the diffusion of news linking suspected deaths to the vaccine, during the …

. This paper examines how expanding the availability of exemptions influences vaccination rates in early childhood and … vaccination coverage among black and low-income preschoolers by 16.1% and 8.3%, respectively. Furthermore, we find that those …

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 …