Alfaro, Laura; Faia, Ester; Lamersdorf, Nora; Saidi, Farzad - 2021
Externalities and social preferences, such as patience and altruism, play a key role in the endogenous choice of social … interactions, which in turn affect the diffusion of a pandemic or patterns of social segregation. We build a dynamic model …, augmented with an SIR block, in which agents optimally choose the intensity of both general and group-specific social …