Various non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were adopted by countries worldwide to contain the transmission of COVID-19. But their implementation raises a debate on the effectiveness of these mitigation measures. Studying 13 types of NPIs with the daily data of 185 countries from January to...

Objectives: To assess differences in willingness to vaccinate children against COVID-19, and factors that may be associated with increased acceptance, among US caregivers of various racial and ethnic identities who presented with their child to the Emergency Department (ED) after emergency use...

A known policy dilemma occurs between the need to curb extra-large profits by some industries, like pharmaceuticals, and the need to ensure the incentive to produce is not damaged. This paper shows that a profit cap, imposed via taxation on a group of firms, can simultaneously eliminate...

We quantify the effects of online vaccine skepticism on vaccine uptake and health complications for individuals not targeted by immunization campaigns. We collect the universe of Italian vaccine-related tweets for 2013-2018, label anti-vax stances using NLP, and match them with vaccine coverage...

SARS-CoV-2 vaccines give rise to positive externalities on population health, society and the economy in addition to protecting the health of vaccinated individuals. Hence, the social value of such a vaccine exceeds its market value. This paper estimates the willingness to pay (WTP) for a...

Two discrete choice experiments conducted early in the Covid-19 vaccination campaign show that people dramatically undervalue the Covid-19 vaccine, relative to benchmarks implied by the value of a statistical life (VSL). Our first experiment found that median willingness to pay (WTP) for initial...

What effect does the provision of American vaccines abroad have on views of the US? How does being vaccinated influence opinions regarding foreign aid policy? Does the example of the US providing aid lead to higher support for giving aid in other nations? This paper seeks to answer these...

We evaluate the effectiveness of randomized interventions aimed at alleviating psychological barriers (maternal stress and difficulty visualizing the future) and addressing information frictions on early childhood immunization uptake in a sample of 2,145 mothers of infants in Pakistan. A...