Arbeitspapier

Measuring Social and Externality Benefits of in Influenza Vaccination

Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination in two settings. First, using a natural experiment, I estimate the impacts of aggregate vaccination rates on mortality and work absences in the United States. Second, I examine a setting with large potential externality benefits: vaccination mandates for health care workers. I find that the social benefits of vaccination are substantial, most of benefits operate through an externality, and that the benefits of health care worker vaccination are particularly large.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12525

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Externalities
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Thema
vaccine
vaccination
influenza
flu
externality
health

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
White, Corey
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2019

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • White, Corey
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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