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Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response
Oster, Emily F. - 2016
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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Testing Fractional Doses of Covid-19 Vaccines
Więcek, Witold; Ahuja, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Esha; … - 2021
to investing in parallel in multiple approaches to accelerating vaccination. We argue there are high expected social …
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The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on U.S. Cumulative Deaths from Covid-19
Atkeson, Andrew - 2023
The CDC reports that 1.13 million Americans have died of COVID-19 through June of 2023. I use a model of the impact over the past three years of vaccines and private and public behavior to mitigate disease transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to address two questions....
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The Ex-Ante Moral Hazard Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines
Agrawal, Virat; Sood, Neeraj; Whaley, Christopher - 2022
discontinuity in vaccination rates at age 65 due to early eligibility of older population, we compared vaccination rates and risk … different age groups became eligible for vaccination, we estimate that COVID-19 vaccination has no effect on risk mitigating …
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A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Clinical Trial Designs for Covid-19 Vaccine Candidates
Berry, Donald; Berry, Scott; Hale, Peter; Isakov, Leah; … - 2021
We compare and contrast the expected duration and number of infections and deaths averted among several designs for clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, including traditional randomized clinical trials and adaptive and human challenge trials. Using epidemiological models calibrated to...
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Preparing for a Pandemic : Accelerating Vaccine Availability
Ahuja, Amrita; Athey, Susan; Baker, Arthur; Budish, Eric B. - 2021
Vaccinating the world’s population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative approaches to procurement. We find that if the goal is to...
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Pandemics, Vaccines and an Earnings Damage Function
Hong, Harrison G.; Kubik, Jeffrey D.; Wang, Neng; Xu, Xu; … - 2021
We derive a parsimonious model of damage to corporate earnings from COVID-19. Using measures of expected damage from industry-level earnings forecast revisions, we estimate this model with nonlinear least squares and identifying restrictions related to forecast rationality. Forecasts in mid-May...
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The Market Impacts of Pharmaceutical Product Patents in Developing Countries : Evidence from India
Duggan, Mark - 2014
In 2005, as the result of a World Trade Organization mandate, India began to implement product patents for … pharmaceuticals that were compliant with the 1995 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). We combine … pharmaceutical product sales data for India with a newly gathered dataset of molecule-linked patents issued by the Indian patent …
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Corporate Immunity to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Ding, Wenzhi; Levine, Ross; Lin, Chen; Xie, Wensi - 2021
Using data on over 6,000 firms across 56 economies during the first quarter of 2020, we evaluate the connection between corporate characteristics and stock price reactions to COVID-19 cases. We find that the pandemic-induced drop in stock prices was milder among firms with (a) stronger pre-2020...
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The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination : Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
Ho, Lisa; Breza, Emily; Alsan, Marcella; Banerjee, … - 2022
effectiveness -- or lack thereof -- of popular vaccination campaign strategies is therefore critical. In this paper, we report … results from two studies that tested strategies central to current vaccination outreach: (1) direct communication by health … professionals addressing questions about vaccination and (2) efforts to motivate individuals to promote vaccination within their …
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