Random Acts of Data with Dr. Anupam Jena
ParentData with Emily Oster
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How Randomness Influences Flu Vaccination
When your kid is born, to what extent does that influence whether they get a flu vaccine and then presumably their ultimate health? We looked at very large data from insurance companies. And we showed that kids who were born in the summer are about 15 percentage points less likely to get a flu shot than kids who wereborn in September or October. If you have a September, October, November, birthday, you're much more likely to getting a flu shot as a kid.
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