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

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 …

Malawian epidemic. In the developed framework, people select between different sexual practices while knowing the inherent risk …

Traditional economic models of vaccination assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decision of others. These … models show that private vaccination rates are always below the social optimal and even large subsidies cannot achieve … conform to the vaccination decisions of their peers. In this model privately optimal vaccination rates can be higher or lower …