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 …

While it reduces the probability of facing a primary (or vaccine-preventable) disease, vaccination may also introduce … feature of vaccination and attitudes toward risk. Risk aversion is shown to increase the propensity to vaccinate when the …

vital statistics, waning immunity, and vaccination. This model is rich enough to accommodate endemic steady states and … output resulting from social distancing, deaths resulting from the disease, and the cost of vaccination. Surprisingly, even …