SARS-CoV-2 vaccines give rise to positive externalities on population health, society and the economy in addition to … protecting the health of vaccinated individuals. Hence, the social value of such a vaccine exceeds its market value. This paper …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral …Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the … persistence of health assessments. Culture persists, rather than fades, and further, appears to strengthen over generations. We …

We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second …-generation migrants with that of their country of origin. To mitigate potential selection bias, we use European data containing records … variables including citizenship and cultural proxies. Our results show robust evidence of persistence of health assessments, and …