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Learning by Suffering? Patterns in Flu Shot Take-up
Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2018
An annual flu shot is one of the least controversial and most widely-recommended preventative health measures. In spite of such advice, only a fraction of those who are suggested to get a flu shot actually receive it. We focus on past personal outcomes to understand how individual learning in...
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Investors' Portfolio Behavior Under Alternative Models of Long-Term Interest Rate Expectations : Unitary, Rational, or Autoregressive
Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1980
This paper develops behavioral relationships explaining investors' demands for long-term bonds, using three alternative hypotheses about investors' expectations of future bond prices (yields). The results, based on U.S. 'data for six major categories of bond market investors, consistently...
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Estimating the Fraction of Unreported Infections in Epidemics with a Known Epicenter : an Application to COVID-19
Hortaçsu, Ali - 2020
We develop an analytically tractable method to estimate the fraction of unreported infections in epidemics with a known epicenter and estimate the number of unreported COVID-19 infections in the US during the first half of March 2020. Our method utilizes the covariation in initial reported...
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Externalities and Growth
Klenow, Peter J. - 2004
Externalities play a central role in most theories of economic growth. We argue that international externalities, in … have international knowledge externalities. When calibrated, the hybrid model does a surprisingly good job of generating …
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Are There Civic Returns to Education?
Dee, Thomas S. - 2003
these externalities exist. I assess and implement two strategies for identifying the effects of educational attainment. One …
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Externalities and Growth Accounting
Benhabib, Jess - 1989
We reexamine several bodies of data on the growth of output, labor, and capital, within the context of a model that admits the possibility of an externality to the capital input. The model is an augmented version of Paul Romer's (1987) reformulation of the Solow model. Unlike Romer, however, we...
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution on Mental Health Outcomes
Agrawal, Virat; Cantor, Jonathan H.; Sood, Neeraj; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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 …
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Pandemics, Vaccines and Corporate Earnings
Hong, Harrison - 2020
We estimate a model of damage to corporate earnings from COVID-19. An unexpected pandemic lowers current earnings due to costly mitigation and reduces growth rates. Damage depends on the expected arrival of a vaccine that reverts earnings to normal. Using this model, we infer from analysts'...
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Immunization and Moral Hazard : The HPV Vaccine and Uptake of Cancer Screening
Moghtaderi, Ali - 2016
HPV vaccination for cervical cancer on participation in the Pap test, which is a diagnostic screening test to detect … HPV vaccine. A reduction in willingness to have a Pap test as a result of HPV vaccination would signal the need for public … health intervention. The HPV vaccination is recommended for women age eleven to twelve for regular vaccination or for women …
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Using Preference Estimates to Customize Incentives : An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan
Andreoni, James - 2016
We use structural estimates of time preferences to customize incentives for polio vaccinators in Lahore, Pakistan. We measure time preferences using intertemporal allocations of effort, and derive the mapping between these structural estimates and individually optimized incentives. We evaluate...
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