Reminder design and childhood vaccination coverage
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A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination coverage. Retrospective reminders are primarily effective for families with small children and when sent out close to the recommended vaccination age. Digital and postal reminders are equally effective. Prospective reminders increase timely vaccinations in later childhood and help reaching high coverage for new vaccines in increasingly complex vaccination programs. While reminders prompt additional preventive care for focal children, we find no spillovers to other health behaviors or relatives.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Artikelnummer | 102832 |
| Tidsskrift | Journal of Health Economics |
| Vol/bind | 93 |
| ISSN | 0167-6296 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - jan. 2024 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:
We thank Marcella Alsan, Hans Henrik Sievertsen, Maria Knoth Humlum and seminar participants at CEBI (University of Copenhagen), Copenhagen Business School (CBS), the 2022 Workshop on Behavioral Responses to Health Innovations at the University of Copenhagen and the 2022 Applied Economics Conference: Labour, Health and Welfare in Belgrade for helpful comments. Hirani gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Danish Council for Independent Research (grant 0218-00003B). Wüst gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Danish Council for Independent Research (grant 8019-00051B). Wüst is a member of the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), which is financed by the Danish National Research Foundation, Grant DNRF134.
Funding Information:
We thank Marcella Alsan, Hans Henrik Sievertsen, Maria Knoth Humlum and seminar participants at CEBI (University of Copenhagen), Copenhagen Business School (CBS), the 2022 Workshop on Behavioral Responses to Health Innovations at the University of Copenhagen and the 2022 Applied Economics Conference: Labour, Health and Welfare in Belgrade for helpful comments. Hirani gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Danish Council for Independent Research (grant 0218-00003B ). Wüst gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Danish Council for Independent Research (grant 8019-00051B ). Wüst is a member of the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), which is financed by the Danish National Research Foundation , Grant DNRF134 .
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