TY - JOUR
T1 - Lessons from COVID’S Vaccination
T2 - External-Internal Frictions and Efficiency
AU - Ramirez-Zamudio, Aldo
AU - Sanchez Davila, Elmer
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Instituto de Investigación Cientifica (IDIC) at the Universidad de Lima, Peru.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 by the authors.
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - This paper explores some economic variables that determine the emerging of new COVID-19 variants and the determinants of vaccination advances in 108 countries during a quarterly period from March 2020 to March 2022. We found that more people being fully vaccinated and more education (measured as schooling years) decrease the probability of the emergence of new COVID-19 variants, but more crowded cities and higher percentages of urban population increase that probability. Furthermore, we found that the percentage of fully vaccinated people depends positively on the country’s preparation to respond to a health crisis, educational levels, and the index of economic complexity (which measures how diverse in the production of goods and services a country is and the level of its infrastructure), and it depends negatively on the percentage of rural populations (which makes vaccination more difficult).
AB - This paper explores some economic variables that determine the emerging of new COVID-19 variants and the determinants of vaccination advances in 108 countries during a quarterly period from March 2020 to March 2022. We found that more people being fully vaccinated and more education (measured as schooling years) decrease the probability of the emergence of new COVID-19 variants, but more crowded cities and higher percentages of urban population increase that probability. Furthermore, we found that the percentage of fully vaccinated people depends positively on the country’s preparation to respond to a health crisis, educational levels, and the index of economic complexity (which measures how diverse in the production of goods and services a country is and the level of its infrastructure), and it depends negatively on the percentage of rural populations (which makes vaccination more difficult).
KW - covid
KW - vaccines
KW - variants
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85149132797&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/vaccines11020248
DO - 10.3390/vaccines11020248
M3 - Artículo (Contribución a Revista)
AN - SCOPUS:85149132797
SN - 2076-393X
VL - 11
JO - Vaccines
JF - Vaccines
IS - 2
M1 - 248
ER -