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T1 - Direct and Spillover Effects of Provider Vaccination Faciliation
AU - Cullen, Julie Berry
AU - Humlum, Maria Knoth
AU - Suziedelyte, Agne
AU - Thingholm, Peter Rønø
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - We explore the role that physicians play 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 that the constructed measure of provider vaccination facilitation 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. We also demonstrate that providers affect decisions beyond those of their own patients, influencing uptake for patients’ younger cousins affiliated with other providers by about one-quarter as much as own patients.
AB - We explore the role that physicians play 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 that the constructed measure of provider vaccination facilitation 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. We also demonstrate that providers affect decisions beyond those of their own patients, influencing uptake for patients’ younger cousins affiliated with other providers by about one-quarter as much as own patients.
U2 - 10.3386/w30951
DO - 10.3386/w30951
M3 - Working paper
VL - 30951
BT - Direct and Spillover Effects of Provider Vaccination Faciliation
PB - National Bureau of Economic Research
ER -