COVID-19 Vaccines : A Shot in Arm for the Economy /

We quantify the effect of vaccinations on economic activity in the United States using weekly county level data covering the period end-2020 to mid-2021. Causal effects are identified through instrumenting vaccination rates with county-level pharmacy density interacted with state-level vaccine alloc...

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Yazar: Hansen, Niels-Jakob
Diğer Yazarlar: Mano, Rui C.
Materyal Türü: Dergi
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
Seri Bilgileri:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/281
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Online Erişim:Full text available on IMF
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