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A structural model of coronavirus behaviour: What do four waves of Covid tell us?
Meenagh, David; Minford, Patrick - 2022
hospitalisation and fatality rates of vaccination and population immunity due to past infection: the latter was the most signiÖcant … factor driving both trends, while the vaccination rate also had a signiÖcant short run e§ect on the fatality rate. We also …
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Optimal Disease Eradication
Hoel, Michael; Barrett, Scott - 2004
optimal. When eradication is feasible, the optimal program requires either a low vaccination rate or eradication. A high … vaccination rate is never optimal. Under special conditions, the results are especially stark: the optimal policy is either not to …
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Can the vaccinations end the Covid-19 pandemic?
Greiner, Alfred; Owusu, Benjamin Darkwa - 2022
In this paper we empirically analyze the effect of the vaccinations against the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the Covid-19 pandemic for European countries from February 2021 to February 2022 with weekly data. We perform panel fixed effects estimations, GMM estimations and nonlinear penalized spline...
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Hohe Impfbereitschaft gegen Covid-19 in Deutschland, Impfpflicht bleibt kontrovers
Graeber, Daniel; Schmidt-Petri, Christoph; Schröder, … - 2020
Dieser Bericht beschreibt die Impfbereitschaft und Akzeptanz einer Impfpflicht gegen Covid-19 in Juni und Juli 2020 in Deutschland auf Basis einer Teilstichprobe (SOEP-CoV) des Sozioökonomischen Panels, die zum Themenkomplex Covid-19 befragt wurde. SOEP-CoV beinhaltete auch Fragen zur...
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Zwischen Plattformkapitalismus und öffentlicher Gesundheitsvorsorge: Daten-Technologien in der Corona-Epidemie
Daum, Timo - 2020
Um in einer (bald wieder) globalisierten Welt effektiv wirksam zu sein, sollten nicht nationale Regierungen, sondern die WHO eine globale Contact-Tracing-App erstellen.
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Incentives can spur COVID-19 vaccination uptake
Klüver, Heike; Hartmann, Felix; Humphreys, Macartan; … - In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (2021) 36, pp. --
Recent evidence suggests that vaccination hesitancy is too high in many countries to sustainably contain COVID-19 … three strategies to increase vaccine uptake, namely, providing freedoms, financial remuneration, and vaccination at local … doctors. Our results suggest that all three strategies can increase vaccination uptake on the order of two to three percentage …
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Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Social Distancing
Andersson, Ola; Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; … - 2020
We show that the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces voluntary social distancing. In a large-scale preregistered survey experiment with a representative sample, we study whether providing information about the safety, effectiveness, and availability of COVID-19 vaccines affects compliance...
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Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Social Distancing
Andersson, Ola; Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; … - 2021
We show that the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces voluntary social distancing. In a large-scale preregistered survey experiment with a representative sample, we study whether providing information about the safety, effectiveness, and availability of COVID-19 vaccines affects compliance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615446
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Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...
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Inducing human capital formation: Migration as a substitute for subsidies
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2001
When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. The provision of subsidies for the formation of human capital, conditional on the subsidy being self-financed by tax...
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