effective in 2016. Employing a unique dataset of county-level vaccination and exemption rates at Kindergarten entry, we exploit … coverage for school-mandated vaccines. Relative to a diverse group of control states, our findings indicate that vaccination … exemptions in California was only partially effective in improving vaccination coverage, and may have led parents to substitute …

vaccination by experimentally varying race concordance between sender and receiver, and, among Black respondents, a discordant … with no vaccination experience …

policies and anti-MENA rhetoric on preventive care use among MENA children in the US. Specifically, we evaluate the election of … Donald Trump, and find that the election decreased MENA children's utilization of vaccinations and well visits. Documenting …

Vaccination is a critical tool, along with suppression and treatment, for controlling epidemics such as SARS-CoV-2. To … maximize the impact of vaccination, doses should be allocated to the highest value targets, accounting for health and potential … vaccination using novel, local seroprevalence data from India. Second, we estimate the value of statistical life-years using …

vaccination rate increases among children at school entry following an outbreak in the year prior. A large outbreak in the county …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 …

Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study), we assess the long-term effects of childhood vaccination on cognitive and … treatment on the treated effect of childhood vaccination. Our results confirm that vaccinations before the age of 15 have long …

Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) mandated that all plans cover the cost and administration of childhood vaccines. We … associated with differential changes among poor and near-poor children relative to their non-poor counterparts in either age … to non-poor children after implementation of SCHIP. The increase was greater among children from urban areas, among …