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 …

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 …

Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey merged to state-level COVID-19 vaccination eligibility data to estimate the secondary … benefits of COVID-19 vaccination on mental health outcomes. To address endogenous COVID-19 vaccination, we leverage state …-level variation in the timing of when age groups are eligible for vaccination. We estimate that COVID-19 vaccination reduces anxiety …

study, controlling for GDP/Capita and vaccination rates, by December 2021 the E/O ratio was smaller in countries with higher … vaccination rates. In a broad study, adding institutional and policy variables, the E/O ratio was smaller in countries with higher …

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 …

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