Behavioral Law and Economics: Reluctance to Vaccinate: Omission Bias and Ambiguity

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Psychological Influence in Negotiation: An Introduction Long Overdue (2008, background): “This is related to a bias that favors the status quo (Ritov & Baron, 1990; Samuelson & Zeckhauser, 1988).”
Choice without Awareness: Ethical and Policy Implications of Defaults (2013, background): “For example, comparisons have been drawn between the default effect, the status quo bias (Ritov and Baron 1990; Samuelson and Zeckhauser 1988), and the endowment effect (Park, Jun, and MacInnis 2000), all of which have been explained in terms of loss aversion (Thaler, Kahneman, and Knetsch 1992).”
Ambiguity and Ambiguity Aversion (2014, background): “Such experiments include decisions regarding vaccination of children (Ritov and Baron (1990)), heart disease (Curley, Young and Yates (1989)), residential location based on health risks (Viscusi, Magat and Huber (1991), Viscusi and”
Counterfactual Thought. (2016, background): “They prefer to do nothing, even when inertia also leads to change (e.g., Ritov & Baron 1990).”