Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,103
Cover Image
'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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372412
Cover Image
Maternal education and childhood immunization in Turkey
Özer, Mustafa; Fidrmuc, Jan; Eryurt, Mehmet Ali - 2017
We study the causal effect of maternal education on childhood immunization rates. We use the Compulsory Education Law (CEL) of 1997, and the differentiation in its implementation across regions, as instruments for schooling of young mothers in Turkey. The CEL increased the compulsory years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119220
Cover Image
Cognitive development and infectious disease : gender differences in investments and outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - 2013
late childhood. We estimate that a one standard deviation reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality rates results in about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228782
Cover Image
The effect of vaccination on children's physical and cognitive development in the Philippines
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Shenoy, Erica S. - In: Applied economics 44 (2012) 19/21, pp. 2777-2783
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009547113
Cover Image
Disease, death, and displacement : the long-term effects of early-life conditions on income, education, and health in Sweden, 1937-2011
Serratos-Sotelo, Luis - 2021
three very different shocks to early-life conditions: (1) exposure to disease and vaccination, studied through the case of … them.For the case of disease and vaccination, the results show that there was no evidence that exposure during early life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939994
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499619
Cover Image
The Long-Term Cognitive and Schooling Effects of Childhood Vaccinations in China
Oskorouchi, Hamid - 2020
Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study), we assess the long-term effects of childhood vaccination on cognitive and … treatment on the treated effect of childhood vaccination. Our results confirm that vaccinations before the age of 15 have long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837904
Cover Image
Early life access to polio vaccines and declining disability rates in India
Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022
We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888356
Cover Image
Association between parents' nativity status and influenza vaccination rates among children
Yasenov, Vasil; Hotard, Michael; Lawrence, Duncan; … - 2021
Previous research has documented lower vaccination rates among ethnic and racial minorities as well as foreign …-born people, thus raising concerns about health inequities during pandemics. We analyzed influenza vaccination rates among … higher odds of receiving the influenza vaccination even after controlling for socio-demographic characteristics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624942
Cover Image
Birth order, parental health investment, and health in childhood
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schneeweis, Nicole; Schober, Thomas; … - 2019
In 2012, a labour market reform in Italy known as the Fornero Law substantially reduced firing restrictions for open-ended contracts in the case of firms with more than 15 employees. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138345