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Perceived Risk and Vaccine Hesitancy : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Italy

Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; Mazzarella, Gianluca; … - 2021

. Before the interruption, the AZ vaccination trend followed the same pattern as Pfizer-Biontech (PB). We document that, after …

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Association between Parents' Nativity Status and Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Children

Yasenov, Vasil I.; 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 …

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State dependence in immunization and the role of discouraging information

Dasgupta, Kabir; Pacheco, Gail; Plum, Alexander - 2022

Does having a child immunised at the prior schedule genuinely impact the likelihood of vaccinating the child at the following schedule? Using longitudinal data from Growing Up in New Zealand study, we apply a random-effects probit model that also controls for the initial immunisation status. We...

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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...

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Communities and testing for Covid-19

Stillman, Steven; Tonin, Mirco - 2021

Between November 18th and 25th, 2020, 348,810 out of 500,607 (69.7 percent) eligible residents of the South Tyrol region of Italy volunteered to take a Covid-19 rapid antigen test. We examine the community characteristics that are associated with higher testing rates. Our findings point to a...

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Motivated beliefs and the elderly's Compliance With Covid-19 Measures

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021

Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals might not comply with the COVID-19 measures to reassure themselves that they...

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Right and yet wrong : a spatio temporal evaluation of Germany's COVID-19 containment policy

Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik - 2020

In order to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control, most governments around the globe have adopted some sort of containment policies. In the light of the enormous costs of these policies, in many countries highly controversial discussions on the adequacy of the chosen policies evolved. We...

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A matter of trust? : political trust and the Covid-19 pandemic

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021

There is significant cross-country variation in Covid-19 fatalities worldwide. In this study, we analyze the relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and controlling for other determinants, we find that government trust...

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Human-environment-health and reinforcement of individual resilience

Sornette, Didier; Cauwels, Peter; Mearns, Euan; Wu, Ke - 2020

experienced since WWII or the last “Spanish flu” pandemic of 1918. This shock provides a real-life test of the resilience of human …

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Two approaches to saving the economy : micro-level effects of Covid-19 lockdowns in Italy

Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor; Kecht, Valentin; Le Blanc, Julia; … - 2023

In response to the two waves of Covid-19 in 2020, the Italian government implemented a general lockdown in March, but geographically targeted policies during fall. We exploit this natural experiment to compare the effects of the two policies in a difference-in-differences design, leveraging a...

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