Vaccination and altruism under the COVID-19 pandemic

• Main Authors: Susumu Cato (Author), Takashi Iida (Author), Kenji Ishida (Author), Asei Ito (Author), Hiroto Katsumata (Author), Kenneth Mori McElwain (Author), Masahiro Shoji (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: The goal of this study is to examine the role of altruism and sensitivity to public shame in individuals' willingness to pay for a COVID-19 vaccine. Study design: We apply expected utility theory to predict the role of individuals' altruism and public shame in the willingness t...