2021-2022 Senior Honors Theses
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Item Next In Line: Vaccine Hesitancy of Parents and Children in the Philippines, Findings from a Survey Experiment(2022-05-23) Rivera, BeatrizThe Philippines’ Covid-19 vaccination efforts are hampered by a population with high levels of vaccine hesitancy, low levels of generalized trust, and a pre-pandemic national health scare from a previous mass vaccination effort towards children. This paper examines messaging campaigns implemented in a survey experiment focused on reducing cognitive demands of processing information and evaluating benefits in the Philippines on a sample of 1,859 unvaccinated Filipinos. Treatment arms include: reverse endorsement to improve credibility of information sources, simplified messaging around vaccine information and effectiveness, and emphasizing the personal and social benefits of vaccination. Experiment results show the interventions, especially the ones emphasizing benefits to the individual and their friends and families, are highly effective in increasing willingness to be vaccinated. The interventions were also highly effective in groups where communication efforts should be concentrated: those who are uncertain about their plans to vaccinate and parents with children enrolled in school. With eligibility recently expanded to minors at least 5 years of age and a growing public desire to get students back in the classroom, these findings support how more personalized interventions such as leveraging pandemic effects on children and the resulting increased demand for caregiving could improve vaccine acceptance among adults and the children they are responsible for in the country’s pursuit to inoculate the youth and the rest of the population.Item The Effect Of The Coronavirus Pandemic On The US Cut Flower Market: A Harris County Texas Florists Wholesale Price And Quantity Change Of Roses And Hydrangeas From January 2018 To August 2021(2021-12-09) Munson, Alyssa M.This study is about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the United States cut flower market. The collected data is from one Harris County florists' wholesale price and quantity demanded of roses and hydrangeas. The data of new COVID-19 cases for Harris County show that the prices and quantities both increased alongside new COVID-19 cases. We find that roses highlight the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on cut flower products. The cut flower industries experienced labor shortages, increased costs of trade and purchases, supply-chain fractures, regulations, developing countries importing, supply decrease, and consumer inelasticity. The existing literature displays COVID-19 effects on different markets, while this study collects and presents new data on the cut flower industries. The pricing and quantity data was just compiled for this study from an individual Houston florists' wholesale purchases. We find that with this newly collected data that COVID-19 did influence the US cut flower market. During the pandemic, the cut flower market supply curve shifted downwards, and the demand curve shifted upwards, resulting in a price increase.