Author: Masao Fukui; Kohei Kawaguchi; Hiroaki Matsuura
Title: Does TB Vaccination Reduce COVID-19 Infection?: No Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis Document date: 2020_4_22
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Snippet: Second, we conducted a difference-in-difference analysis using all 17 countries with 10-year-age-group level case statistics. The identification assumption in the current model is that without the BCG vaccination the expected log difference of the infection rates across age-groups are the same across countries. In this paper, we constructed a treatment variable that indicates the age ratio within age-group t covered by the BCC vaccination (BCG it.....
Document: Second, we conducted a difference-in-difference analysis using all 17 countries with 10-year-age-group level case statistics. The identification assumption in the current model is that without the BCG vaccination the expected log difference of the infection rates across age-groups are the same across countries. In this paper, we constructed a treatment variable that indicates the age ratio within age-group t covered by the BCC vaccination (BCG it ) in country i. We also constructed a treatment variable that indicates the vaccination using the Japan or Russia/Bulgaria strain (BCG JRB,it ) and another treatment variable that indicates the vaccination using other strains (BCG Other,it ). We then regressed the log of the number of cases per thousand on these treatment variables, controlling for country and age-group dummies as:
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