. This paper examines how expanding the availability of exemptions influences vaccination rates in early childhood and … vaccination coverage among black and low-income preschoolers by 16.1% and 8.3%, respectively. Furthermore, we find that those …

Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses …, but low take-up rates and vaccination unintentionally causing moral hazard may decrease its benefits. We ran a natural … field experiment in cooperation with a bank in Ecuador, where we modified its vaccination campaign. Experimentally …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on food insecurity in the United States, using data from the … instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of vaccination decision. We find that vaccination had a substantial impact on food … vaccination policy can be effective in alleviating the fiscal burden of the pandemic on the government. Furthermore, our analysis …

vaccination rates rose from 5% to 40%, rapid testing had the largest effect on reducing infection numbers. Frequent large …