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 …

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 …

systematic fashion. Using newly digitized mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the … requirement was associated with a 6 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality, while the opening of a state-run sanatorium was … associated with an almost 4 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality. However, these and other anti-TB measures can explain, at …

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature …

of pollution control and vaccination campaigns jointly provide greater returns than those implied by addressing either in …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify … and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or in years of life lost, increases sharply with GDP per capita. The …

with 1–2 weeks later arrival and no detectable reduction in final mortality. The case for permanent limits on international …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual herd immunity scenario: without any policy intervention, LYs …