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Using randomized methodologies, we study a common community HIV/AIDS program that seeks to promote HIV testing by improving knowledge and reducing stigmatizing attitudes. Contrary to expectations, the program has a substantial negative effect on HIV testing rates. We provide evidence of likely...
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A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
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Vaccination rates have a statistically significant downward effect on the Covid-19 death rate across US counties, as of … Biden-Trump vote in the 2020 election as an instrument for vaccination rates raises the magnitude of the estimate …
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This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on food insecurity in the United States, using data from the … instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of vaccination decision. We find that vaccination had a substantial impact on food … vaccination policy can be effective in alleviating the fiscal burden of the pandemic on the government. Furthermore, our analysis …
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-19 vaccination take-up rates and COVID-19 health outcomes, we leverage exogenous, pre-existing variation in locations of … presence of a participating retail pharmacy vaccination site in a county leads to an approximately 26% increase in the per …-up decisions. Increases in county-level per capita participating retail pharmacies lead to an increase in COVID-19 vaccination …
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vaccination by experimentally varying race concordance between sender and receiver, and, among Black respondents, a discordant … with no vaccination experience …
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that had voted for Biden in the Presidential Election. The probability of vaccination rose with age, was considerably … with lower anxiety, worry and depression and was associated with higher vaccination rates, it also increased the …
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We report a large-scale randomized controlled trial designed to assess whether the partisan cue of a provaccine message from Donald Trump would induce Americans to get COVID-19 vaccines. Our study involved presenting a 27-second advertisement to millions of U.S. YouTube users in October 2021....
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries to make difficult ethical choices, e.g., how to balance public health and socioeconomic activity and whom to prioritize in allocating vaccines or other scarce medical resources. We discuss the implications of benefit-cost analysis, utilitarianism, and...
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seeking behavior during a public health crisis. This paper evaluates the effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the individual … eligibility rollout across states and over time as an instrument for individual vaccination status. We find that receiving a COVID … protection against infection. We also find evidence to indicate that vaccination affects healthcare seeking behavior by easing …
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