An Analysis of Peer Effects on Vaccination Behavior Using a Model of Privately Provided Public Goods

Jun-ichi Itaya (), Yoko Ibuka and Naomi Miyazato

No 321, Discussion paper series. A from Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University

Abstract: Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of others. We provide three different models of private provision of a public good, such as a joint production model and a conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive peer effect regarding vaccination behavior arises. We conduct two empirical studies using Japanese data in these models. The first empirical analysis, using a data set on the vaccination behavior of neighbors residing in the same block of a city, finds the existence of positive peer effects on individuals' vaccination decisions. The second empirical analysis also confirms that there are peer effects on the vaccination decisions of members of the same household using a dataset from the national survey we conduct.

Keywords: Peer effect; Public Good; Vaccination; Free-rider (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2018-02-25
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