Testing the Prevalence Elasticity of Demand for HPV Vaccination

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: I investigate how HPV vaccination decisions respond to changes in the prevalence of cervical cancer using state-level cancer incidence and mortality data from the United States Cancer Statistics and individual-level vaccination data from the National Immunization Survey. I use a linear probability model, a logistic model, and a Cox proportional hazard model. Across all specifications, I find that cervical cancer prevalence has little to no effect on HPV vaccination. This unresponsiveness to prevalence may be due to a lack of awareness of HPV and its causal link to cervical cancer.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2016

Author	Staben, Rae
Primary advisor	Bhattacharya, Jay
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics

Subject	Stanford Department of Economics
Subject	Prevalence elasticity
Subject	human papillomavirus
Subject	vaccination
Subject	immunization
Subject	rational disease dynamics
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/sc301fz3862

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Preferred Citation: Staben, Rae. (2016). Testing the Prevalence Elasticity of Demand for HPV Vaccination. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/sc301fz3862

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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