children's vaccinations in the most remote areas from the closest health facility. Despite this improvement, we find that …-up remain low in developing countries. We analyze the effects on child vaccinations of a large-scale community-based health … worker program that aimed to reach remote areas distant from public health facilities in Madagascar. We identify these …

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … vaccination rate increases among children at school entry following an outbreak in the year prior. A large outbreak in the county … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data …

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 …

the demand-side incentives embodied in health policy affect the rate of technological change in the medical sector …. Specifically, I estimate the effect on vaccine investment of discrete changes in health policy that increased the return to … dynamic health benefits from the technological change induced by the policies are at least as large as the static health …

We explore the role that physicians play in moderating compliance with recommended vaccinations. Using administrative … data on the universe of Danish children and their healthcare providers, we first construct and validate a measure of … providers' propensities to comply with recommended vaccinations from birth to age 6 based on a two-way fixed effects model. We …

on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while … others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials …

children. The program is more effective and much more cost-effective than asking Community Health Workers (CHWs) to distribute … health of a program providing monthly coupons for free water treatment solution (diluted chlorine) to households with young …