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| de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth; Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto. |
| This paper has two objectives. The first is to analyze the effectiveness of the scarcity management strategy used for the Fall 2004 U.S. flu vaccine shortage, based on defining priority groups and calling on self-restraint to favor these groups. The second is to reveal differentiated behavioral responses across categories of individuals and the apparent motivations behind these responses. To do this, we observed the responses of the members of a campus population to two distinct randomized treatments in a designed field experiment during the flu vaccine shortage. Corresponding to the management strategy followed by the Center for Disease Control, one treatment provided information about a sharply reduced number of vaccination clinics (scarcity) and their... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Randomized experiment; Shortage; Self-restraint; Cheating; Health Economics and Policy; C93. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7162 |
