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In this study, 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 nd that vaccination take-up as of November 2021 is positively associated with pre-vaccine COVID-19- related deaths …
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We study the causal effect of maternal education on childhood immunization rates. We use the Compulsory Education Law (CEL) of 1997, and the differentiation in its implementation across regions, as instruments for schooling of young mothers in Turkey. The CEL increased the compulsory years of...
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that the vaccine reinstatement substantially restored vaccination intentions. …
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This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...
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Recent economic literature has advanced the notion that cognitive biases and behavioural barriers may be important influencers of uptake decisions in respect of public programs that are designed to help disadvantaged people. This paper provides the first evidence on the determinants of uptake of...
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expense or all-cause mortality rates among rural residents, but it does reduce mortality for specific diseases such as AIDS …
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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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Since vaccination is the decisive factor for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand the … process to vaccination success. We identify a variety of factors playing a crucial role including the availability of vaccines … across countries, we find that initially authoritarian countries are slow in the vaccination process, while education is most …
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Voluminous vaccine campaigns are used globally since the COVID-19 pandemic owes devastating mortality and destructively … sensitivity of the vaccinated proportion, providing causality and evidence that expanding and expediting COVID-19 vaccination can …
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in granting broad worldwide access to vaccination. The accumulated delays in providing effective Covid-19 vaccine …
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