We quantify the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on psychological well-being using information from a large-scale panel … vaccination increases psychological well-being by 0.12 standard deviation, compensating for around one half of the overall … mentally distressed individuals, supporting the prioritization of this group in vaccination roll-outs. …

As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates … than Western European countries. Can institutional inheritance explain, at least in part, this heterogeneity in vaccination … Communist regimes would still affect individuals' preferences for Covid-19 vaccination. …

We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in … find that countries perceived as less corrupt and more liberal experience higher vaccination rates. Furthermore, they are … less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is …

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 …

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 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 …

challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever. We present a large field experiment (N=47,306) testing 19 nudges … messages sent prior to a primary care visit can boost vaccination rates by an average of 5%. Overall, interventions performed …