Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data …

understood. Leveraging the staggered rollout of vaccines, we find that the vaccination campaign across 141 countries averted 2 …The global COVID-19 vaccination campaign is the largest public health campaign in history, with over 2 billion people ….4 million excess deaths, valued at $6.5 trillion. We also find that an equitable counterfactual distribution of vaccines, with …

vaccinations, which resulted in the complete vaccination of nearly 45 percent of the adult population. In the midst of this mass … vaccination effort, Texas became the first state to abolish its statewide mask mandate and fully lift capacity constraints for all …

administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months …

coverage for school-mandated vaccines. Relative to a diverse group of control states, our findings indicate that vaccination … effective in 2016. Employing a unique dataset of county-level vaccination and exemption rates at Kindergarten entry, we exploit … coverage increased for all required vaccines following the repeal, ranging from 2.5% for MMR to 5% for Polio. We also find a …

intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics … listed the times and locations of the relevant vaccination clinics. Mailings to employees randomly assigned to the treatment … and time the employee planned to be vaccinated. Vaccination rates increased when these implementation intentions prompts …

vaccine as from a drug. Empirical tests are consistent with the predictions of the model that vaccines are less likely to be …

epidemic model and link valuations to infections via an asset-pricing framework with vaccines. Infections lower earnings growth …