| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w22464
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 22464
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| Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response |
| Emily Oster
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| 发表日期 | 2016-08-01
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| 出版年 | 2016
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data on vaccinations and outbreaks to estimate whether vaccinations respond to disease outbreaks. I find that the pertussis vaccination rate increases among children at school entry following an outbreak in the year prior. A large outbreak in the county can decrease the share of unvaccinated children by 28% (1.2 percentage points). These responses do not reflect true changes in the future disease risk. I argue these facts may be explained by a model in which perceived risk of disease is influenced by whether a household is aware of any cases of disease. This suggests better “promotion” of outbreaks could enhance the response. I use survey data from health departments to show that states which directly coordinate outbreak responses have substantially larger vaccination increases in the wake of an outbreak, suggesting centralized management may better take advantage of this opportunity. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22464
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580138
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Emily Oster. Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response. 2016.
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