The Long-Term Effects of Measles Vaccination on Earnings and Employment: Comment

Michael Wiebe

No 177, I4R Discussion Paper Series from The Institute for Replication (I4R)

Abstract: Atwood (2022b) reports a positive effect of the 1963 measles vaccine on long-run economic outcomes. The identifying variation is from pre-vaccine average reported measles incidence, but this plausibly represents reporting capacity or initial health levels, rather than actual disease incidence. I extend the sample and use an event study to test for differential trends, and find trends that are inconsistent with a treatment effect of the vaccine.

JEL-codes: I12 I18 J22 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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