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Vaccination take-up and health: evidence from a flu vaccination program for the elderly

Brilli, Ylenia; Lucifora, Claudio; Russo, Antonio; … - 2020

We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take … vaccination rate for individuals aged less than 65. We show that this effect is not entirely driven by an income channel, but also … depends on the expected benefits of vaccination. The analysis on health outcomes shows that the program reduces the likelihood …

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Measuring social and externality benefits of in influenza vaccination

White, Corey D. - 2019

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 …

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Vaccination take-up and health : evidence from a flu vaccination program for the elderly

Brilli, Ylenia; Lucifora, Claudio; Russo, Antonio; … - 2019 - This version: June 2019

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 …

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Reminder design and childhood vaccination coverage

Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan; Wüst, Miriam - 2023

A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and … three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination … recommended vaccination age. Digital and postal reminders are equally effective. Prospective reminders increase timely …

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Is envy harmful to a society's psychological health and wellbeing? : a longitudinal study of 18,000 adults

Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018

Nearly 100 years ago, the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell warned of the social dangers of widespread envy. One view of modern society is that it is systematically developing a set of institutions - such as social media and new forms of advertising - that make people feel...

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Evidence on maternal health from two large Canadian parental leave expansions : when is enough too much?

Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; … - 2016 - Revised version

Exploiting unique administrative longitudinal data sets on medical services provided to mothers before- and after- delivery, we estimate the causal effects of two major distinct parental leave reforms on maternal health outcomes, over a period of 5 years postpartum. The health outcomes are...

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Anthropometric mobility during childhood

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013

While childhood obesity has become a significant public health concern over the last few decades, knowledge concerning the origins of or persistence in childhood anthropometric measures is incomplete. Here, we utilize several nonparametric measures of mobility to assess the evolution of weight,...

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The origins of early childhood anthropometric persistence

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013

Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known about the origins of this persistence. In this paper we attempt to answer three questions. First,...

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State-Level Healthcare Spending and Health Outcomes : An Application of Spatial Durbin Panel Approach to Mortality

Bose, Srimoyee - 2015

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Voting, contagion and the trade-off between public health and political rights: quasi-experimental evidence from the Italian 2020 polls

Mello, Marco; Moscelli, Giuseppe - 2021

We exploit a quasi-experimental setting provided by an election day with multiple polls to estimate the effect of voters' turnout on the spread of new COVID-19 infections and to quantify the policy trade-off implied by postponing elections during high infection periods. We show that post-poll...

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