to investing in parallel in multiple approaches to accelerating vaccination. We argue there are high expected social … returns to investigating the scope for lowering the dosage of some COVID-19 vaccines. While existing evidence is not … neutralizing antibody response and vaccine efficacy suggests that half- or even quarter-doses of some vaccines could generate high …

We study the response of an economy to an unexpected epidemic. Households mitigate the spread of the disease by …

This paper presents a simple price-theory approach to Covid-19 lockdown and reopening policy. The key idea is to … formulation provides economics language for a policy middle ground between society-wide lockdown and ignore-the-virus, and a new …

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 …