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Rational Epidemics and Their Public Control

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Geoffard, Pierre-Yves
Philipson, Tomas

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This paper studies an economic model of the dynamic spread of an infectious disease, contrasting its implications in terms of the occurrence of the disease itself, as well as the effects of public health interventions, with those of mathematical epidemiology. Copyright 1996 by Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association.

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Article provided by Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association in its journal International Economic Review.

Volume (Year): 37 (1996)
Issue (Month): 3 (August)
Pages: 603-24
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