Short on Shots: Are Calls on Cooperative Restraint Effective in Managing the Scarcity of Flu Vaccines?
| dc.creator | de Janvry, Alain | |
| dc.creator | Sadoulet, Elisabeth | |
| dc.creator | Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:20:05Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T04:29:39Z | |
| dc.description | We conducted a randomized experiment at the time of the 2004 flu vaccine shortage, providing information about the sharply reduced number of clinics and their schedule, and an appeal on cooperative restraint to a campus population. This strategy was intended to reduce demand for vaccination among non-priority individuals and to free available supplies for the priority population. It failed to achieve its purpose. Information induced a net increase in vaccines distributed and, perversely, the net increase originated entirely in non-priority individuals. The surprising finding is that calls on cooperative restraint induced an uncalled for positive response among priority individuals, while they induced an increase in cheating among non-priority individuals. Age as a qualifying factor was in particular widely abused, with the number of “65 years old” more than twice the predicted value, while about half of the predicted 61-64 years old are missing. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.37861 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/37861/files/CUDARE%201013R3%20Villas-Boas.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/37861 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/550725 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/37861 | |
| dc.title | Short on Shots: Are Calls on Cooperative Restraint Effective in Managing the Scarcity of Flu Vaccines? | |
| dc.type | Text |