Dan Tortorice
@dantortorice.bsky.social
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Economist living and working in the Boston area. Dad of two boys. Spend a lot of time coaching baseball. I enjoy reading mysteries and drinking wine.
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USAID has spent $2 billion supporting vaccines through GAVI. In research, published in AEJ:Economic Policy, Kartini Shastry and I find GAVI saved 1.5 million lives at a low cost of $9,000 per child saved. See the writeup of our research in VoxDev:
voxdev.org/topic/health...
Effective health aid: Evidence from Gavi’s vaccine programme
Coordinated health aid for vaccination has increased coverage rates and saved the lives of children around the world.
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Always make me chuckle.