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 …

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 …

' willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our empirical analysis is based on data … willingness to get vaccinated, but these results are less pronounced and less robust. Our results indicate that vaccination …

. 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 …

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 …

campaign, unaffected by media cases, we show that media reporting decreases flu vaccination by about 2.5% (78 fewer …We study the role of media reporting of alleged adverse effects of influenza vaccination on adults' (aged 50 or more …) decisions to vaccinate against the flu. We exploit the diffusion of news linking suspected deaths to the vaccine, during the …

A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and … three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination … recommended vaccination age. Digital and postal reminders are equally effective. Prospective reminders increase timely …