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Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data … vaccination rate increases among children at school entry following an outbreak in the year prior. A large outbreak in the county …
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The CDC reports that 1.13 million Americans have died of COVID-19 through June of 2023. I use a model of the impact over the past three years of vaccines and private and public behavior to mitigate disease transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to address two questions....
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We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non … provincial vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after … the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy …
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We derive a parsimonious model of damage to corporate earnings from COVID-19. Using measures of expected damage from industry-level earnings forecast revisions, we estimate this model with nonlinear least squares and identifying restrictions related to forecast rationality. Forecasts in mid-May...
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implies that people's decision to cut back on consumption and work reduces the severity of the epidemic, as measured by total … deaths. These decisions exacerbate the size of the recession caused by the epidemic. The competitive equilibrium is not …
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between the vaccination rates of those with a college education relative to those with a high school education. Finally, our …
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discontinuity in vaccination rates at age 65 due to early eligibility of older population, we compared vaccination rates and risk … different age groups became eligible for vaccination, we estimate that COVID-19 vaccination has no effect on risk mitigating …
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Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey merged to state-level COVID-19 vaccination eligibility data to estimate the secondary … benefits of COVID-19 vaccination on mental health outcomes. To address endogenous COVID-19 vaccination, we leverage state …-level variation in the timing of when age groups are eligible for vaccination. We estimate that COVID-19 vaccination reduces anxiety …
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to investing in parallel in multiple approaches to accelerating vaccination. We argue there are high expected social …
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vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. We leverage rich data on colleges’ vaccination policies and semester start dates, along …
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