It is important to consider the social stigma against going-out people in the fight against COVID-19 because it reduces the spread of infection through individual self-restraint behavior. This study analyzes the interaction between self-restraint behavior, infection with viruses such as...

It is important to consider the social stigma against going-out people in the fight against COVID-19 because it reduces the spread of infection through individual self-restraint behavior. This study analyzes the interaction between self-restraint behavior, infection with viruses such as...

There is a large body of anecdotal evidence from sub-Saharan Africa of widespread medical distrust leading to health program failures. In this paper, to isolate an exogenous variation in trust in medicine to explain contemporary health demand in sub-Saharan Africa, we rely on a widespread...

The COVID-19 outbreak led the governments of many countries to impose restrictions on non-essential travel to countries affected by coronavirus, indefinitely suspending tourism travel, work visas and immigrant visas. Some countries placed a complete travel ban on all forms of inward or outward...

Social stigma can effectively work for keeping people from going out and possibly spreading COVID-19. This study analyzes the interaction between self-restraint behavior, infection with viruses such as COVID-19, and stigma against going out by using the framework of replicator dynamics. We show...

Social stigma can effectively prevent people from going out and possibly spreading COVID-19. This study analyzes the interaction between self-restraint behavior, infection with viruses such as COVID-19, and stigma against going out by using the framework of replicator dynamics. We show that a...

This work examines the socio-economic determinants of body weight in the United Kingdom by means of two recent waves from the British Household Panel Survey. While the patterns of overweight and obesity have drawn economists’ interest in recent years, our main contribution is to examine the...

Obesity is a complex medical problem that according to World Health Organization has become a global epidemic. Its increasing prevalence in Argentina is leading to a greater incidence of associated diseases, with a significant impact on health costs and a decline in life quality. This problem is...

In the mid-1980s, the Indian government embarked on one of the largest childhood immunization programs-called "Universal Immunization Program" (UIP)in order to reduce the high mortality and morbidity among children. I examine the effect of this immunization program on child mortality and...

This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...