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Webinar NOVAFRICA “Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone”

Na quarta-feira, 3 de Março, pelas 14h30, hora de Lisboa, o centro NOVAFRICA dá as boas-vindas a Anne Karing da Universidade de Princeton para apresentar o seu trabalho sobre sinalização social e imunização infantil na Serra Leoa.

Autora: Anne Karing, Universidade de Princeton.

Resumo: This paper investigates social signaling in the context of childhood immunization in Sierra Leone. I introduce a durable signal – in the form of differently colored bracelets – which children receive upon vaccination and implement a 22-month-long experiment in 120 public clinics. Informed by theory, the experimental design separately identifies social signaling from leading alternative mechanisms. In a first main finding, I show that individuals use signals to learn about others’ actions. Second, I find that the impact of signals varies significantly with the social desirability of the action. In particular, the signal has a weak effect when linked to a vaccine with low perceived benefits and a large, positive effect when linked to a vaccine with high perceived benefits. Of substantive policy importance, signals increase timely and complete vaccination by 14 percentage points at a cost of approximately 1 USD per child. Finally, I structurally estimate a dynamic discrete-choice model to quantify the value of social signaling. I find that parents’ value of signaling completion is equivalent to the cost of walking 5-8 miles.

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