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Fairness in the use of limited resources during a pandemic

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Capacity limitations are indispensable measures of social distancing in fighting COVID-19 and other pandemics. The paper at hand analyzes these restrictions from the viewpoint of fairness, understood as the possibility of equal access to the scarce resource. To this end, it employs the so-called El Farol Bar problem in conjunction with an adaptive learning approach. Particular emphasis is given to the distribution of information. Our results show that information is, indeed, central to the situation. Policy recommendations are derived.

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  • Josef Schosser, 2022. "Fairness in the use of limited resources during a pandemic," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(6), pages 1-8, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0270022
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270022
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