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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 …
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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 …
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-related benefits that would have accrued if these vaccination requirements had been implemented as intended. Compared with the … vaccination rates observed in January 2022, we find that the mandates could have led to 15 million additional vaccinated … policymakers. In scenarios involving the emergence of a novel, more transmissible variant, against which vaccination and previous …
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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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effects of vaccination exposure. Leveraging an extensive list of controls and network proxies including Facebook county … consistently find null dynamic network effect, suggesting that social exposure to vaccination has had limited effect on alleviating …
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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 …
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vaccination rates rose from 5% to 40%, rapid testing had the largest effect on reducing infection numbers. Frequent large …
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We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on …
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We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...
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We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in the UK. We estimate a model of compliance choice with uncertain costs and benefits to quantify utility tradeoffs, decompose group differences in compliance, and compute...
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