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 …

also document cross-vaccine spillovers: the mandates increased adolescent vaccination for meningococcal disease and human …

The global COVID-19 vaccination campaign is the largest public health campaign in history, with over 2 billion people … understood. Leveraging the staggered rollout of vaccines, we find that the vaccination campaign across 141 countries averted 2 … vaccination in each country proportional to its population, would have saved roughly 670,000 more lives. However, this …

between the vaccination rates of those with a college education relative to those with a high school education. Finally, our …

-up; estimating indirect effects also poses difficulty as it requires exogenous variation in peer vaccination status. We overcome …-in-differences designs leads to large estimates of direct effects: vaccination reduces COVID-19 incidence by 80 percent. But our estimates of … indirect effects are small and statistically insignificant: despite a 20 percentage point increase in vaccination rates across …