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 …

, Covid-19 perceptions, and vaccination behavior. We see no evidence that life insurance purchases or cancellations were …

-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 …

-related benefits that would have accrued if these vaccination requirements had been implemented as intended. Compared with the … vaccination rates observed in January 2022, we find that the mandates could have led to 15 million additional vaccinated … policymakers. In scenarios involving the emergence of a novel, more transmissible variant, against which vaccination and previous …

Vaccinating the world's population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the …

implies that people's decision to cut back on consumption and work reduces the severity of the epidemic, as measured by total … deaths. These decisions exacerbate the size of the recession caused by the epidemic. The competitive equilibrium is not …

We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non … provincial vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after … the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy …