Besides The Fear ItselfBesides The Fear Itself. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9791222479101

In many cases, temporal inconsistency is what prevents us from moving from thought to action. However, in the specific example of vaccination, it is difficult to believe that temporal inconsistency alone is the reason why people often delay the decision despite being fully aware of the benefits of vaccination. . When people continuously delay vaccinating their children, they must constantly fool themselves. Not only do they have to want to go to the vaccination camp next month instead of today, they also have to believe that they will actually go there next month. We must be somewhat naive in believing that we can do the right thing in the future. But if parents truly believe in the benefits of vaccination, they won't be able to fool themselves month after month, pretending to do it next month until the end of the second period. year, so your child's vaccination will be late. Later in this book, we will see how poor people try to force themselves to be frugal, and this requires a lot of complicated financial considerations. If they truly believed vaccination was as great as the WHO advises, maybe they would have found a way to overcome their habit of procrastination. So it is likely that they are hesitant because they underestimate the benefits of vaccination.
This should be especially encouraged when households for some reason are somewhat skeptical about the benefits of what is being proposed. This makes preventive medicine an extremely suitable candidate for policy incentives: Its benefits lie in the future and are hard to see. The good news is that motivational nudges can help persuade people, which can start a positive feedback loop. Do you remember the story of mosquito nets given to a poor family in Kenya? We have argued that the additional income from a mosquito net itself is not large enough for a child who is provided with a mosquito net to be able to buy more nets for his or her children in the future: Even if mosquito nets could help, If a child's income increases by 15%, that additional income will only increase the ability to buy a mosquito net by 5%. However, the income effect is not everything.