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Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination

Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alexander D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

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Economic Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases

Philipson, Tomas - 1999

Infectious disease is currently the main cause of mortality in the world and has been even more important historically. This paper reviews recent research in economic epidemiology. Specifically, it discusses the occurrence of infectious diseases and the effects of public health interventions...

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Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response

Oster, Emily - 2016

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...

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Projected Health Benefits and Health Care Savings from the United States National Hepatitis C Elimination Initiative

Chhatwal, Jagpreet; Aaron, Alec; Zhong, Huaiyang; Sood, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The national hepatitis C elimination initiative provides an opportunity to dramatically expand access to hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment and put the US on a path to eliminating hepatitis C. Our objective was to project the health benefits and cost savings of this initiative. A previously...

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International Policy Coordination in a Multisectoral Model of Trade and Health Policy

Acharya, Viral V.; Jiang, Zhengyang; Richmond, Robert J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We analyze international trade and health policy coordination during a pandemic by developing a two-economy, two-sector trade model integrated into a micro-founded SIR model of infection dynamics. Disease transmission intensity can differ by goods (manufactured versus services and domestic...

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Optimal Vaccine Subsidies for Endemic and Epidemic Diseases

Goodkin-Gold, Matthew - 2020

against an emerging epidemic. While the nonmonotonic pattern of the optimal subsidy persists, new findings emerge. Universal …

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Knowledge, Stigma, and HIV Testing : An Analysis of a Widespread HIV/AIDS Program

Yang, Dean; Allen, James E.; Mahumane, Arlete; Riddell, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using randomized methodologies, we study a common community HIV/AIDS program that seeks to promote HIV testing by improving knowledge and reducing stigmatizing attitudes. Contrary to expectations, the program has a substantial negative effect on HIV testing rates. We provide evidence of likely...

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Public Avoidance and the Epidemiology of novel H1N1 Influenza A

Yoo, Byung-Kwang - 2010

hand sanitizer, and the use of face masks in public places. Existing forecasting models of the epidemic spread of nH1N1 … the formal modeling. In this paper, we build a forecasting model of the nH1N1 epidemic that explicitly accounts for … avoidance behavior. We use data from the U.S. summer and the Australian winter nH1N1 epidemic of 2009 to estimate the parameters …

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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

Cawley, John - 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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The Political Scar of Epidemics

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020

epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in … experienced epidemics under weak governments with less capacity to act against the epidemic, disappointing their citizens. We …

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