Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data …

additional vaccine was about $1 or less …

Due to the enormous economic, health, and social costs of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are high expected social returns … to investing in parallel in multiple approaches to accelerating vaccination. We argue there are high expected social … neutralizing antibody response and vaccine efficacy suggests that half- or even quarter-doses of some vaccines could generate high …

drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the … health. We find that gaining prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D was associated with a 70% increase in the … health care services or health, as measured by functional status and self-reported health. Among those in poorer health, we …

health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …

infectious disease. Local policies have little impact on the economy nor on local public health. Stay-at-home is only weakly … economic and public health shock. They also show that policy spillovers and behavioral responses are important. The tradeoff … between the economy and public health in a pandemic depends strongly on what is happening elsewhere. This underscores the …

demand for EID vaccines have discouraged vaccine developers, and government and nonprofit agencies have been unable to … portfolio of EID vaccine assets, and find that under realistic financing assumptions, the expected returns are significantly …

maximize the impact of vaccination, doses should be allocated to the highest value targets, accounting for health and potential …Vaccination is a critical tool, along with suppression and treatment, for controlling epidemics such as SARS-CoV-2. To … statistical life-years saved). We make 3 methodological contributions. First, we estimate the incremental health benefit of …

related to forecast rationality. Forecasts in mid-May 2020 imply an earnings crash and lower earnings growth until a vaccine … arrives in 1.48 years (95% CI [0.61, 5.88]). We extend our framework to account for time-varying vaccine arrival rates. Mid …-August 2020 forecasts imply a vaccine arrival in 0.61 years (95% CI [0.35, 1.06]), which is due to positive vaccine news as …

vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. We leverage rich data on colleges’ vaccination policies and semester start dates, along … with a variety of county-level public health outcomes, to provide the first estimates of the effects of these mandates on … 13 weeks of the fall 2021 semester, college vaccine mandates reduced new COVID-19 cases by 339 per 100,000 county …