The long-term effects of measles vaccination on earnings and employment
- 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.
| Author details: | Mara BarschkettGND, Mathias Huebener, Andreas LeibingORCiD, Jan MarcusORCiDGND, Shushanik MargaryanORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18718/81781.30 |
| ISSN: | 2749-988X |
| Title of parent work (English): | Journal of comments and replications in economics |
| Subtitle (English): | a replication study of Atwood (American economic journal: economic policy, 2022) |
| Publisher: | ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics |
| Place of publishing: | Hamburg |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2023/12/01 |
| Publication year: | 2023 |
| Release date: | 2024/04/10 |
| Tag: | health; labor market outcomes; measles vaccine; replication; robustness |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 15 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre |
| DDC classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 65 Management, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit / 650 Management und unterstützende Tätigkeiten |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
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| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
