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Direct and Spillover Effects of Provider Vaccination Facilitation
Cullen, Julie Berry; Humlum, Maria Knoth; Suziedelyte, Agne - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
then show that the constructed measure of provider vaccination facilitation meaningfully affects uptake of the Human …
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Reserve System Design for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic : Some Perspectives from the Field
Pathak, Parag A.; Persad, Govind; Sönmez, Tayfun; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to rationing guidelines for scarce medical resources. This paper describes the benefits of using a reserve system over a priority system in operationalizing compromises between certain ethical goals. In the last two years, more than a dozen...
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Quantifying the Social Value of a Universal COVID-19 Vaccine and Incentivizing Its Development
Glennerster, Rachel; Kelly, Thomas; McMahon, Claire T.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A booster of the COVID-19 vaccine targeting the prevailing Omicron variant did not become available in the United States until a year after the variant was first detected. This pattern of developing, testing, and distributing a variant-specific booster may become the default response to further...
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Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations Beyond COVID Vaccines?
D'Souza, Arielle; Hoyt, Kendall; Snyder, Christopher M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...
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Vaccination Policy, Delayed Care, and Health Expenditures
Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Liu, Chia-Lun; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response
Oster, Emily - 2016
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 …
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Accelerating Vaccine Innovation for Emerging Infectious Diseases via Parallel Discovery
Barberio, Joseph; Becraft, Jacob; Ben Chaouch, Zied; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the financial performance of a hypothetical portfolio of 120 mRNA vaccine candidates in the preclinical stage targeting 11 emerging infectious diseases. We calibrate the simulation parameters with input from domain experts in mRNA technology and an extensive literature review. We find...
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Consequences of a Shortage and Rationing : Evidence from a Pediatric Vaccine
Liebman, Eli; Lawler, Emily C.; Dunn, Abe; Ridley, David B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
. In the long-run, catch-up vaccination occurred but was incomplete: shortage-exposed cohorts were 4 percentage points less …
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'We Are Not Guinea Pigs' : The Effects of Disclosure of Medical Misconduct on Vaccine Compliance
Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …
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A Shot at Economic Prosperity : Long-term Effects of India's Childhood Immunization Program on Earnings and Consumption Expenditure
Summan, Amit; Nandi, Arindam; Bloom, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Routine childhood vaccinations are among the most cost-effective interventions. In recent years, the broader benefits of vaccines, which include improved cognitive and schooling outcomes, have also been established. This paper evaluates the long-term economic benefits of India's national program...
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