VACCINE HESITANCY, PASSPORTS, AND THE DEMAND FOR VACCINATION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gans, Joshua S.
• 署名单位: University of Toronto; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12609
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 641-652
• 关键词: economics; MODEL

摘要

Vaccine hesitancy is modeled as an endogenous decision within a behavioral epidemiological model with endogenous agent activity. It is shown that policy interventions that directly target costs associated with vaccine adoption may counter vaccine hesitancy whereas those that manipulate the utility of unvaccinated agents will either lead to the same or lower rates of vaccine adoption. This latter effect arises with vaccine passports whose effects are mitigated in equilibrium by reductions in viral/disease prevalence that themselves reduce the demand for vaccination.