dc.contributor.author | Avery, Christopher | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-01T10:01:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-11 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Avery, Christopher. "A Simple Model of Social Distancing and Vaccination." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-030, November 2021. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37370346 | * |
dc.description.abstract | This paper analyzes a simple model of infectious disease where the incentives for individuals to reduce risks through endogenous social distancing take straightforward cost-benefit form. Since disease is transmitted through social interactions, the threat of spread of infection poses a collective action problem. Policy interventions such as lockdowns, testing, and mask-wearing serve, in part, as substitutes for social distancing. Provision of a vaccination is the only intervention that unambiguously reduces both the peak infection level and the herd immunity level of infection. Adoption of vaccination remains limited in a decentralized equilibrium, with resulting reproductive rate of disease Rt > 1 at the conclusion of vaccination. Vaccine mandates yield increases in vaccination rates and corresponding reductions in future infection rates but do not increase expected payoffs to individuals. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Harvard Kennedy School | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/simple-model-social-distancing-and-vaccination | en_US |
dash.license | OAP | |
dc.title | A Simple Model of Social Distancing and Vaccination | en_US |
dc.type | Research Paper or Report | en_US |
dc.description.version | Version of Record | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-01T10:01:27Z | |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Avery, Christopher | |