Not Buying It: Opting out, Vaccination and Morality

Opting Out and Buying Out: Wives' Earnings and Housework Time.

It has been proposed that the negative association between wives' earnings and their time in housework is due to greater outsourcing of household labor by households with high-earning wives, but this hypothesis has not been tested directly. In a sample of dual-earner married couples in the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey of the Health and Retirement Study (N = 796), use of market substit...

Not it: opting out of voluntary coalitions that provide a public good

Most coalitions that form to increase contributions to a public good do not require full participation by all users of the public good, and therefore create incentives for free riding. If given the opportunity to opt out of a voluntary coalition, in theory, agents should try to be among the first to do so, forcing the remaining undecided agents to bear the cost of participating in the coalition...

Opting-in or Opting-out on the Internet: Does it Really Matter?

Personal privacy has become one of the pressure points that comprises utmost primacy in the scientific community. An often debated privacy issue concerns the means of soliciting consent on the use of consumer information: should consumers be asked to object to the use of personal data (opt-out), or should they be asked to consent to the use of such data (opt-in)? These questions have been the c...

Compulsory school-entry vaccination laws and exemptions: who is opting out in ontario and why does it matter?

School-entry vaccination regulations are a policy instrument that has been widely used in some jurisdictions as a mechanism to ensure high immunization coverage rates. Exemptions to school-entry vaccination, which can be allowed on medical or non-medical grounds, present a number of ethical and policy challenges. In this paper, we consider the situation in Canada, where school-entry vaccination...

Defaults, Framing and Privacy: Why Opting In Opting Out