Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/262206 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper Series No. 2022/04
Publisher: 
Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Auckland
Abstract: 
Does having a child immunised at the prior schedule genuinely impact the likelihood of vaccinating the child at the following schedule? Using longitudinal data from Growing Up in New Zealand study, we apply a random-effects probit model that also controls for the initial immunisation status. We detect sizeable state dependence in immunisation, indicating that the likelihood of a child increases, on average, by 21 percentage points if the child was immunised at the previous schedule compared to if not. This effect is further exacerbated if the mother received antenatal discouraging information on immunisation.
Subjects: 
State dependence
vaccination
random-effects
initial conditionsproblem
JEL: 
I12
I18
C33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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