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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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differences across counties with low- and high vaccination rates. Policy implications are discussed. …
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result in lower vaccination hesitancies, ceteris paribus. …
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, vaccination efficiency was lower in states with a centralized public health agency. States with a larger share of the elderly … performed using vaccination from a more recent period. Finally, a state’s legacy of corrupt activity, across two different time …
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In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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The latest resurgence in the U.S. of policies aimed at reducing imports and bolstering domestic production has included the expansion of Buy American provisions. While some of these are new and untested, in this paper we evaluate long-standing procurement limitations on the purchase of foreign...
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We study the effects of federal purchases on firm investment using a novel panel dataset that combines federal procurement contracts in the United States with key financial firm-level information. Using panel fixed-effect models, propensity score matching, and inverse probability weighting...
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This study investigates the relationship between economic preferences and COVID-19 vaccination readiness using two … survey questions. We find robust, positive relationships between vaccination readiness and both patience and trust. The … positive association between altruism and vaccination readiness vanishes when controlling for the other preference dimensions …
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Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of … conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive peer effect regarding vaccination behavior arises. We conduct two empirical … studies using Japanese data in these models. The first empirical analysis, using a data set on the vaccination behavior of …
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. There has been significant cross-country variation in the vaccination of people against COVID-19. In this study, we focus on … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …
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