Financial Incentives for Childhood Immunization

For at least half a century, economists have believed that governments should use financial incentives to correct many social problems [Baumol and Mills, 1984]. Yet when one plunges into the previous work on incentives, one is struck by the abundance of exhortation urging greater use of incentive plans, and by the dearth of useful propositions about how such schemes have worked in practice . [Church and Heumann, 1989]. This article briefly describes the experience of two nations that use monetary rewards to increase childhood immunization rates. The cases have appeared in a suggested economics curriculum [Hemenway, 1994]

Business · Economics · Immunization · Incentive · Microeconomics · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Finance

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  Thomas W Church, Milton Heumann•Journal of Policy Analysis and…•1989

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