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A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been argued that the obese die younger, the data that have become available do not immediately support this. This potentially undermines the hypothesis that modern life with its physical...
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result in lower vaccination hesitancies, ceteris paribus. …
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study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the vaccination propensities of the unvaccinated are noteworthy, especially significant given the fact the COVID-19 … impact decisions to fully vaccinate, while greater prosperity made full vaccination more likely. We did not find robust …
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This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on food insecurity in the United States, using data from the … instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of vaccination decision. We find that vaccination had a substantial impact on food … vaccination policy can be effective in alleviating the fiscal burden of the pandemic on the government. Furthermore, our analysis …
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differences across counties with low- and high vaccination rates. Policy implications are discussed. …
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-related benefits that would have accrued if these vaccination requirements had been implemented as intended. Compared with the … vaccination rates observed in January 2022, we find that the mandates could have led to 15 million additional vaccinated … policymakers. In scenarios involving the emergence of a novel, more transmissible variant, against which vaccination and previous …
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A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been argued that the obese die younger, the data that have become available do not immediately support this. This potentially undermines the hypothesis that modern life with its physical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832183
This paper focuses on the question: Does public or private control of health care lead to greater healthcare system efficiency? The data analysis demonstrates a curvilinear relationship between government control over health care and health care system inefficiency and that, as a result, a...
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The business restrictions introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic greatly affected the labour market. However, quantifying their costs is not trivial as local policies affect neighbouring areas through spillovers. Exploiting the U.S. local variation in restrictions and commuting, we estimate the...
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private university allows us to estimate how peer effects influence health beliefs and vaccination choices. Our results … positive peer effects on individuals' vaccination decisions. A student becomes up to 8.3 percentage points more likely to get … inoculation clinics suggests that students coordinate their vaccination decisions with their friends. …
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