 Peer effects on influenza vaccination: Evidence from a city's administrative data in JapanNaomi Miyazato, Yoko Ibuka and Jun-ichi Itaya () Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2024, vol. 74, issue C Abstract: A characteristic that differentiates vaccination from other health behaviors is that it is a public good. By the nature of a public good, negative peer effects are expected when determining vaccination behavior for free-rider incentives. This study empirically analyzes whether the surrounding vaccination status in a community influences individual vaccination behavior using administrative data on influenza vaccination for all the older people within a city of Japan. We first employ fixed effect analysis with a lagged dependent variable. We then examine how vaccination behavior changes in the event of the loss of a cohabitant and how this effect interacts with the community peer effect. Our estimation results confirm positive peer effects: the higher the community's vaccination rate, the more the raising effect of the individual's vaccination rate. Keywords: Peer effect; Public good; Vaccination; Health behaviors; Administrative data (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jjieco:v:74:y:2024:i:c:s0889158324000315 DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2024.101335 Access Statistics for this article Journal of the Japanese and International Economies is currently edited by Takeo Hoshi More articles in Journal of the Japanese and International Economies from Elsevier |
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