Fumio Ohtake is a specially appointed professor on the Behavioral Public Policy Team in the Division of Scientific Information and Public Policy at the Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER), and an adjunct professor of the Graduate School of Economics at Osaka University. He earned his M.A. and a Ph.D. from Osaka University in 1985 and 1996, respectively, and a B.A. from Kyoto University in 1983. He is a former president of the Japanese Economic Association. He is a