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In vaccines we trust? The effects of the CIA's vaccine ruse on immunization in Pakistan
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Martinez-Bravo, Monica and Stegmann, Andreas (2022) In vaccines we trust? The effects of the CIA's vaccine ruse on immunization in Pakistan. Journal of the European Economic Association, 20 (1). pp. 150-186. jvab018. doi:10.1093/jeea/jvab018 ISSN 1542-4766.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvab018
Abstract
In July 2011, the Pakistani public learnt that the CIA had used a vaccination campaign as cover to capture Osama Bin Laden. The Taliban leveraged on this information and launched an anti-vaccine propaganda campaign to discredit vaccines and vaccination workers. We evaluate the effects of these events on immunization by implementing a Difference-in-Differences strategy across cohorts and districts. We find that vaccination rates declined between 23% and 39% in districts in the 90th percentile of Islamist support relative to those in the 10th percentile. These results suggest that information discrediting vaccination campaigns can negatively affect trust in health services and demand for immunization.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Immunization -- Government policy -- Pakistan, Vaccination -- Pakistan -- Political aspects, Anti-vaccination movement -- Pakistan | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the European Economic Association | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1542-4766 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | February 2022 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 20 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 150-186 | ||||||||||||
Article Number: | jvab018 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/jeea/jvab018 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of the European Economic Association following peer review. The version of record Monica Martinez-Bravo, Andreas Stegmann, In Vaccines We Trust? The Effects of the CIA’s Vaccine Ruse on Immunization in Pakistan, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021;, jvab018, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvab018 | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 March 2021 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 May 2022 | ||||||||||||
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