Weatherhead School’s Mariana Carrera, Justin Gallagher address vaccination debate through economic lens

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.