Mariana Carrera and Justin Gallagher, assistant professors of economics in the Weatherhead School of Management, recently published an op-ed in The Plain Dealer on the economic benefits of vaccinating children.
Carrera and Gallagher’s approach examined why people opt out of vaccinating children, attributing it to cost-benefit analysis by parents. In the op-ed, the assistant professors discussed the cyclical process of how less people vaccinate when a disease nears eradication.
Read their op-ed at cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/05/why_vaccinating_our_child_is_a.html#incart_river.