全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Learning by Suffering? Patterns in Flu Shot Take-up

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w25272
来源ID	Working Paper 25272
	Learning by Suffering? Patterns in Flu Shot Take-up
	Ginger Zhe Jin; Thomas G. Koch
发表日期	2018-11-19
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	An annual flu shot is one of the least controversial and most widely-recommended preventative health measures. In spite of such advice, only a fraction of those who are suggested to get a flu shot actually receive it. We focus on past personal outcomes to understand how individual learning in influences patterns over time using medical claims for a 5% panel sample of Medicare FFS beneficiaries. We find that individuals learn from personal suffering from flu and such learning is conditional on whether they have taken a flu shot in the same flu season. If they did not take a flu shot, having the flu later on encourages them to get the flu shot next year. But if they had the flu shot and still got the flu, their likelihood of getting a flu shot next year is significantly reduced. The 2009 outbreak of bird flu does not break the qualitative pattern of “learning by suffering” but it does change the strength of learning.
主题	Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w25272
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582946
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ginger Zhe Jin,Thomas G. Koch. Learning by Suffering? Patterns in Flu Shot Take-up. 2018.

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