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Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic: comparing alternative value frameworks
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Bloom, David E. - 2021
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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Addressing vaccine hesitancy using local ambassadors : a randomized controlled trial in Indonesia
Islam, Asad; Kusnadi, Gita; Rezki, Jahen Fachrul; Sim, … - 2023
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 …
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COVID-19 vaccine and risk-taking
Smart, Shanike J.; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2024
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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Long COVID in the United States
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
having had COVID. Vaccination is associated with lower negative affect, including among those who reported having had long …
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The psychological gains from COVID-19 vaccination: who benefits the most?
Bagues, Manuel F.; Dimitrova, Velichka - 2021
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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The COVID-19 curtain: can past Communist regimes explain the vaccination divide in Europe?
Berniell, Inés; Fawaz, Yarine; Laferrère, Anne; Mira, … - 2021
As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates … than Western European countries. Can institutional inheritance explain, at least in part, this heterogeneity in vaccination … Communist regimes would still affect individuals' preferences for Covid-19 vaccination. …
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Vaccination policy and trust
Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2021
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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Predicting COVID-19 vaccine uptake
Pronkina, Elizaveta; Rees, Daniel I. - 2022
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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Vaccine-skeptic physicians and COVID-19 vaccination rates
Steinmayr, Andreas; Rossi, Manuel - 2022
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 …
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Can a supranational medicines agency restore trust after vaccine suspensions? : the case of Vaxzevria
Albanese, Andrea; Fallucchi, Francesco; Verheyden, Bertrand - 2021
that the vaccine reinstatement substantially restored vaccination intentions. …
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