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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hansen, Niels-Jakob
Other Authors: Mano, Rui C.
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/281
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