Vaccination and the Theory of Games.

Bauch, C. T., & Earn, D. J. D. (2004). Vaccination and the Theory of Games. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(36), 13391-13394.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2004

Volume

101

Issue

36

Pages

13391-13394

DOI

10.1073/pnas.0403823101

DOI registrant

National Academy of Sciences

Link

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0403823101

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economics_finance

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• Free Riding
  • This is rational individual behavior that undermines collective protection, as Bauch and Earn (2004) formalized in their game-theoretic analysis of voluntary vaccination decisions.

    This sourceGame-theoretic proof that individual self-interest under nonzero vaccine risk prevents complete eradication; directly supports the vaccination/herd-immunity free-riding claim.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    Bauch and Earn report that "individual self-interest might preclude complete eradication of a vaccine-preventable disease", and present "a formal game theoretical analysis of this problem" that helps explain human decision-making with respect to vaccination. Self-interested choice about voluntary vaccination working against an outcome that requires broad uptake is the formalisation the sentence attributes to them. The work's modality is weaker than the sentence's, saying self-interest "might preclude" eradication rather than that it undermines protection, and it does not use the language of collective protection or of rationality.

    “As a result, individual self-interest might preclude complete eradication of a vaccine-preventable disease. We show that a formal game theoretical analysis of this problem leads to new insights that help to explain human decision-making with respect to vaccination.”

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