In this paper we present a theory of health investment when there are multiple causes of death. Since there are several …

epidemic hazard prediction, we use data from 2014-2019 to compute measures for exposure, vulnerability, and resilience of the … local economy to the shock of an epidemic. Using a battery of proxies for these four concepts, we calculate the hazard (the … zoonotic source of a possible epidemic), the principal components of exposure and vulnerability to it, and of the economy …

Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of … conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive peer effect regarding vaccination behavior arises. We conduct two empirical … studies using Japanese data in these models. The first empirical analysis, using a data set on the vaccination behavior of …