This paper explores the effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake in Austria, using administrative data with … vaccination rate of the treatment group is 2.5 (first dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine) and 4 (second dose …

Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their … magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination in two settings. First, using a natural … experiment, I estimate the impacts of aggregate vaccination rates on mortality and work absences in the United States. Second, I …

We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take … design around the threshold at age 65. We find that the program increases vaccination take-up by 6 percentage points, which …

. This paper examines how expanding the availability of exemptions influences vaccination rates in early childhood and … vaccination coverage among black and low-income preschoolers by 16.1% and 8.3%, respectively. Furthermore, we find that those …