We show that the first nationwide mass vaccination campaign against measles increased educational attainment in the United States. Our empirical strategy exploits variation in exposure to the childhood disease across states right before the Measles Eradication Campaign of 1967–68, which reduced reported measles incidence by 90 percent within two years. Our results suggest that mass vaccination against measles increased the years of education on average by about 0.1 years in the affected cohorts. We also find tentative evidence that the college graduation rate of men increased.

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大规模疫苗接种和教育程度：1967-68 年消灭麻疹运动的证据

我们表明，首次全国范围内的大规模麻疹疫苗接种运动提高了美国的教育程度。我们的实证策略利用了 1967-68 年根除麻疹运动之前各州儿童疾病暴露情况的差异，该运动在两年内将报告的麻疹发病率降低了 90%。我们的结果表明，大规模麻疹疫苗接种使受影响人群的受教育年限平均增加了约 0.1 年。我们还发现了初步证据表明男性的大学毕业率有所上升。