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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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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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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries to make difficult ethical choices, e.g., how to balance public health and socioeconomic activity and whom to prioritize in allocating vaccines or other scarce medical resources. We discuss the implications of benefit-cost analysis, utilitarianism, and...
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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 …
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' willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our empirical analysis is based on data … obtained from three survey waves of about 2,000 individuals living in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. We find that … 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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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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In order to slow the spread of the CoViD-19 pandemic, governments around the world have enacted a wide set of policies … vaccination rates rose from 5% to 40%, rapid testing had the largest effect on reducing infection numbers. Frequent large …
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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 …
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that the vaccine reinstatement substantially restored vaccination intentions. …
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