%0 Report
        %A White, Corey
        %T Measuring Social and Externality Benefits of in Influenza Vaccination
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12525
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12525
        %X Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination in two settings. First, using a natural experiment, I estimate the impacts of aggregate vaccination rates on mortality and work absences in the United States. Second, I examine a setting with large potential externality benefits: vaccination mandates for health care workers. I find that the social benefits of vaccination are substantial, most of benefits operate through an externality, and that the benefits of health care worker vaccination are particularly large. 
        %K flu
%K influenza
%K vaccination
%K vaccine
%K externality
%K health