Vaccination as a trade-off between risks

Crainich, David; Eeckhoudt, Louis; Menegatti, Mario

Type de document :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

Titre :

Vaccination as a trade-off between risks

Auteur(s) :

Crainich, David [Auteur]

Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Eeckhoudt, Louis [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Menegatti, Mario [Auteur]

Titre de la revue :

Italian Economic Journal

Pagination :

455–472

Éditeur :

Springer

Date de publication :

2019-03-23

ISSN :

2199-3238

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

Résumé en anglais : [en]

While it reduces the probability of facing a primary (or vaccine-preventable) disease, vaccination may also introduce the risk of facing vaccine induced side effects. In this paper, we address the link between this feature ...
Lire la suite >While it reduces the probability of facing a primary (or vaccine-preventable) disease, vaccination may also introduce the risk of facing vaccine induced side effects. In this paper, we address the link between this feature of vaccination and attitudes toward risk. Risk aversion is shown to increase the propensity to vaccinate when the primary disease is lethal or when the risks of primary disease and of side effects are faced in different periods. When the primary disease is non-lethal and may occur together with side effects, we show how the effect of risk aversion is affected by the probability and severity of each disease. The implications of the introduction of random effects of primary disease and of random side effects are also analyzed.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

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