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 …

to investing in parallel in multiple approaches to accelerating vaccination. We argue there are high expected social …

mask-wearing serve, in part, as substitutes for social distancing. Provision of a vaccination is the only intervention that … unambiguously reduces both the peak infection level and the herd immunity level of infection. Adoption of vaccination remains … limited in a decentralized equilibrium, with resulting reproductive rate of disease Rt > 1 at the conclusion of vaccination …

cross-disease effects by using data on neo-natal tetanus vaccination through the Expanded Programme on Immunization of the …

We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non … provincial 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 …

vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. We leverage rich data on colleges’ vaccination policies and semester start dates, along …