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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w29593 |
来源ID | Working Paper 29593 |
The Impact of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution on Mental Health Outcomes | |
Virat Agrawal; Jonathan H. Cantor; Neeraj Sood; Christopher M. Whaley | |
发表日期 | 2021-12-27 |
出版年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a “second pandemic” of anxiety and depression. While vaccines are primarily aimed at reducing COVID-19 transmission and mortality risks, they may have important secondary benefits. We use data from U.S. Census 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 and depression symptoms by nearly 30%. Nearly all the benefits are private benefits, and we find little evidence of spillover effects, that is, increases in community vaccination rates are not associated with improved anxiety or depression symptoms among the unvaccinated. We find that COVID-19 vaccination is associated with larger reductions in anxiety or depression symptoms among individuals with lower education levels, who rent their housing, who are not able to telework, and who have children in their household. The economic benefit of reductions in anxiety and depression are approximately $350 billion. Our results highlight an important, but understudied, secondary benefit of COVID-19 vaccinations. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; COVID-19 |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29593 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587266 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Virat Agrawal,Jonathan H. Cantor,Neeraj Sood,et al. The Impact of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution on Mental Health Outcomes. 2021. |
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