TY  - JOUR
A1  - Barschkett, Mara
A1  - Huebener, Mathias
A1  - Leibing, Andreas
A1  - Marcus, Jan
A1  - Margaryan, Shushanik
T1  - The long-term effects of measles vaccination on earnings and employment
BT  - a replication study of Atwood (American economic journal: economic policy, 2022)
JF  - Journal of comments and replications in economics
N2  - Atwood analyzes the effects of the 1963 U.S. measles vaccination on long-run labor market outcomes, using a generalized difference-in-differences approach. We reproduce the results of this paper and perform a battery of robustness checks. Overall, we confirm that the measles vaccination had positive labor market effects. While the negative effect on the likelihood of living in poverty and the positive effect on the probability of being employed are very robust across the different specifications, the headline estimate—the effect on earnings—is more sensitive to the exclusion of certain regions and survey years.
KW  - measles vaccine
KW  - health
KW  - labor market outcomes
KW  - robustness
KW  - replication
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.18718/81781.30
SN  - 2749-988X
VL  - 2
IS  - 4
PB  - ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
CY  - Hamburg
ER  -