expectancy, and the value of life depend on individual characteristics, medical technology, and the disease environment. We then …

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data … on vaccinations and outbreaks to estimate whether vaccinations respond to disease outbreaks. I find that the pertussis …

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data … on vaccinations and outbreaks to estimate whether vaccinations respond to disease outbreaks. I find that the pertussis …

dependence of economic consequences on (i) disease characteristics; (ii) inequalities among individuals in terms of …