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

mask-wearing serve, in part, as substitutes for social distancing. Provision of a vaccination is the only intervention that … unambiguously reduces both the peak infection level and the herd immunity level of infection. Adoption of vaccination remains … limited in a decentralized equilibrium, with resulting reproductive rate of disease Rt > 1 at the conclusion of vaccination …

cross-disease effects by using data on neo-natal tetanus vaccination through the Expanded Programme on Immunization of the …

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 …

epidemic model and link valuations to infections via an asset-pricing framework with vaccines. Infections lower earnings growth …

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 …

Screening interventions can produce very different treatment outcomes, depending on the reasons why patients had been … evaluating the impact of screening on treatment uptake. We apply these insights to several salient empirical examples that … currently diagnosed patients in important ways, leading to lower predicted uptake of recommended treatment if these patients …