Integrated epi-econ assessment of vaccination

Boppart, Timo; Harmenberg, Karl; Krusell, Per; Olsson, Jonna

doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2022.104308

Cited by 11 publications

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“…The pulling of labour out of agriculture into industrial and service sector jobs has been an important way to reduce poverty and the rural‐urban income gap in many countries (Boppart et al., 2023). However, that contribution has been relatively slow in Fiji.…”

Section: Fijiʼs Structural Transformation and Evolving Comparative Ad...mentioning

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Repurposing agricultural support policies for shared prosperity in rural Fiji

Anderson

2023

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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Notwithstanding the increasing place of tourism exports, the rural sector and its agricultural production remain important contributors to Fijiʼs economy. But their contribution is compromised by policies and institutions that distort the farm sectorʼs resource use, with too many resources employed by sugar and livestock producers at the expense of other farmers and producers of non‐farm products. Subsidies to the sugar industry could be used instead to boost investment in rural public goods such as infrastructure and agricultural research. That would benefit a much larger proportion of rural people, many of whom are below the poverty line. So too would a lowering of tariffs on imports of meat and milk products. And by thereby lowering food prices in urban areas, such re‐purposing of support would benefit their poorest households most. It would also lower the prices of high‐protein livestock products and nutrient‐rich fruits and vegetables, which could well improve nutrition and health.

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Section: Fijiʼs Structural Transformation and Evolving Comparative Ad...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Repurposing agricultural support policies for shared prosperity in rural Fiji

Anderson

2023

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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“…One of the differences is the modeling of testing capacity and associated quarantines. Boppart et al (2022) builds on Boppart et al (2020) to study the value of vaccination and shows that it is high and increasing with age. outside the house, the agent may catch a disease, which may be Covid-19 or a common cold.…”

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Optimal Age-based Policies for Pandemics: An Economic Analysis of Covid-19 and Beyond

Brotherhood,

Kircher,

Santos

et al. 2023

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This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design. To do so, it introduces an economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete information, emphasizing the value of testing. Calibrating the model to the US Covid-19 pandemic reveals an 80% reduction in death toll due to voluntary actions and the lockdown implemented in the United States. The optimal lockdown, however, is more stringent than what was implemented in the United States. Moreover, the social planner follows an asymmetric approach by locking down the young relatively more than the old. We underscore the importance of testing, showing its impact on reduced deaths, lower economic costs and laxer lockdown. We use the framework to provide systematic insights into pandemics caused by different viruses (among others the Spanish flu), and underline the influence of economic conditions on optimal policies.

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“…The need to estimate benefits was not as pressing for the first round of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, because there was little doubt that their benefits exceeded their costs [6] , [26] , [32] , [36] , [39] . However, for subsequent rounds of booster vaccines the case is less clear.…”

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confidence: 99%