On Vaccine Mandates

User icon Toby Green
18 February 2022
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Protests against vaccines mandates have made the news in Canada, but, as some of these articles show, discussions about, for and against mandates are not new. In particular, I recommend the paper from France's Conseil D'Analyse Economique (CAE).


AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 19 October 2021 English

In this issue of AEI’s Political Report, we examine how politicians are handling coronavirus, its seriousness, and trust in institutions; race, policing, and police reforms; election enthusiasm and Donald Trump …


Heritage Foundation · 17 December 2021 English

OSHA asserts—mistakenly in our view—that the mandate would save 6,830 lives over a six-month period.57 “These are the lives that are saved,” the agency asserts, “because of the ETS, or …


Pew Research Center · 15 September 2021 English

73% say they are vaccinated, but at least half express confusion, concern over vaccine information and health impacts.


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 28 August 2014 English

Social interactions make communicable disease a core concern of public health policy. A prevalent problem is scarcity of empirical evidence that are informative about how interventions affect population behavior and …


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 4 November 2021 English

This paper analyzes a simple model of infectious disease where the incentives for individuals to reduce risks through endogenous social distancing take straightforward cost-benefit form. Since disease is transmitted through …


Cato Institute · 23 September 2021 English

To gauge whether financial incentives might encourage unvaccinated Americans to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, the Cato Institute and YouGov conducted an internet survey of 2,000 adults aged 18 and up …


The Aspen Institute · 3 June 2020 English

The end of the COVID-19 pandemic will depend on our ability to address vaccine hesitancy, one of the top 10 threats to global health, before a vaccine is put on …


Heritage Foundation · 19 November 2021 English

And while the Senator has emerged as a major force in a number of Senate oversight investigations, more recently, he has focused on the impact of vaccine mandates and the …


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 26 January 2017 English

We study the direct and spillover effects of state requirements that middle school youths obtain a tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap) booster prior to middle school entry. These mandates increased …


Cato Institute · 22 August 2021 English

At The Hill, I’ve written an op‐​ed that explores, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, what a libertarian position on vaccine mandates ought to be. Of course, there are …