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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Volume 68, Issue 1, Pages 93-129Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/700570
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- Adamawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan
- Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan
- Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan
- Department of Economics at the University of Michigan
- Center for the Education of Women at the University of Michigan
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Yamada Scholarship Foundation
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Understanding how and why social interactions influence people's vaccination behavior is important for disease control. This paper conducts the first causal analysis of peer effects on vaccination behavior in developing countries. We created exogenous variations in peers' vaccination behaviors by randomizing cash incentives for tetanus vaccine take-up among Nigerian women. Vaccine take-up among friends strongly increased women's take-up. The peer effects among friends are heterogeneous according to a person's beliefs about vaccination. We find suggestive evidence of mechanisms underlying the positive peer effects that women visit a clinic together as well as share information about the vaccine.
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