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 …

vaccination program for newborns, a significant number of susceptible adults and teens remain. In this paper, we analyze a game …-theoretical model of HBV dynamics that incorporates government-provided vaccination at birth coupled with voluntary vaccinations of … susceptible adults and teens. We show that the optimal voluntary vaccination brings the disease incidence to very low levels. This …

vaccination rate of the treatment group is 2.5 (first dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine) and 4 (second dose …This paper explores the effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake in Austria, using administrative data with … individual-level information on childhood vaccinations. I define a treatment group of children affected by the outbreak, and …

vaccination rate of the treatment group is 2.5 (first dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine) and 4 (second dose …This paper explores the effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake in Austria, using administrative data with … individual-level information on childhood vaccinations. I define a treatment group of children affected by the outbreak, and …

) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the …, increasing the volatility of epidemic curves and worsening the macroeconomic outlook. If a more contagious variant emerges after … vaccination becomes available, therefore, the mitigating factor of the latter is at least partially offset by the former. A new …