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SUBMITTER: Fenichel EP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3659402 | biostudies-other | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of health economics 20130126 2
Public policies intended to induce behavioral change, specifically incentives to reduce interpersonal contacts or to "social distance," increasingly play a prominent role in public disease response strategies as governments plan for and respond to major epidemics. I compare social distancing incentives and outcomes under decentralized, full control social planner, and constrained social planner, without health class specific control, decision making scenarios. Constrained social planner decision ...[more]