Journal
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
Volume 57, Issue -, Pages 90-101Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.10.003
Keywords
Vaccination; Pertussis outbreak
Funding
- NICHD NIH HHS [P2C HD041020] Funding Source: Medline
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Parental fear of vaccines has limited vaccination rates in the United States. I test whether disease outbreaks increase vaccination using a new dataset of county -level disease and vaccination data. I find that pertussis (whooping cough) outbreaks in a county decrease the share of unvaccinated children entering kindergarten. These responses do not reflect changes in the future disease risk. I argue that these facts are best fit by a model in which individuals are both myopic and irrational. This suggests that better promotion of information about outbreaks could enhance the response. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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