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. …

Although COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, many adults are hesitant or unwilling to use them. Drawing on data …

' 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 …

We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non … 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 (around 6 mln) and …

effects of vaccination exposure. Leveraging an extensive list of controls and network proxies including Facebook county … consistently find null dynamic network effect, suggesting that social exposure to vaccination has had limited effect on alleviating …

reduces vaccine efficacy. A key empirical challenge is the endogeneity bias when comparing risk-taking by vaccination status … of the timing of vaccination, increase their risk-taking by increasing engagement in some risk-taking activities. The …

We study the role of media reporting of alleged adverse effects of influenza vaccination on adults' (aged 50 or more … 2014 vaccination campaign in Italy. Using daily variation in news items across the 2014 campaign and the previous year … campaign, unaffected by media cases, we show that media reporting decreases flu vaccination by about 2.5% (78 fewer …

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 …

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 …