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Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data … vaccination rate increases among children at school entry following an outbreak in the year prior. A large outbreak in the county …
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Vaccination is a critical tool, along with suppression and treatment, for controlling epidemics such as SARS-CoV-2. To … maximize the impact of vaccination, doses should be allocated to the highest value targets, accounting for health and potential … vaccination using novel, local seroprevalence data from India. Second, we estimate the value of statistical life-years using …
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effective in 2016. Employing a unique dataset of county-level vaccination and exemption rates at Kindergarten entry, we exploit … coverage for school-mandated vaccines. Relative to a diverse group of control states, our findings indicate that vaccination … exemptions in California was only partially effective in improving vaccination coverage, and may have led parents to substitute …
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The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and supported by the sale of Christmas seals. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the...
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Routine childhood vaccinations are among the most cost-effective interventions. In recent years, the broader benefits of vaccines, which include improved cognitive and schooling outcomes, have also been established. This paper evaluates the long-term economic benefits of India's national program...
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listed the times and locations of the relevant vaccination clinics. Mailings to employees randomly assigned to the treatment … intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics … and time the employee planned to be vaccinated. Vaccination rates increased when these implementation intentions prompts …
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We review economic arguments for using public policy to accelerate vaccine supply during a pandemic. Rapidly vaccinating a large share of the global population helps avoid economic, mortality, and social losses, which in the case of Covid-19 mounted into trillions of dollars. However,...
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