Direct and Spillover Effects of Provider Vaccination Facilitation

Julie Cullen, Maria Humlum, Agne Suziedelyte and Peter Rønø Thingholm

No 30951, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We explore physicians’ role in moderating compliance with recommended vaccinations. Using administrative data on the universe of Danish children and their healthcare providers, we first construct and validate a measure of providers’ propensities to comply with recommended vaccinations from birth to age 6 based on a two-way fixed effects model. We then show the measure meaningfully affects uptake of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among adolescent patients, and speeds recovery from a media-induced crisis to perceived HPV vaccine safety. Providers affect decisions beyond those of their own patients, influencing patients’ younger cousins’ uptake by one-fifth as much as own patients.

JEL-codes: I1 I12 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02
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