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Hepatitis B (HBV) is one of the most common infectious diseases, with a worldwide annual incidence of over 250 million people. About one-third of the cases are in China. While China made significant efforts to implement a nationwide HBV vaccination program for newborns, a significant number of...
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improve the control of epidemic outbreaks and make better decisions about vaccination costs, the number of mandatory … epidemic outbreak, and considering it when modeling outbreaks can improve model accuracy. A change in outbreak activity can … an epidemic outbreak. This study investigates the social dynamics of vaccination and transmission in such epidemic …
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epidemic model with the replicator equation of evolutionary games in order to study the interplay between the infection … spreading and the propensity of people to be cooperative under the pressure of the epidemic. The developed model shows high … performance in fitting real measurements of infected, recovered and dead people during the whole period of COVID-19 epidemic …
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Given the importance of perceived susceptibility to a disease in adopting preventive behaviors, and the negative impact of optimism bias on prevention, this paper aimed to explore to what extent comparative optimism bias (understood as the tendency to assess a lower probability for oneself to...
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We conduct an artefactual field experiment to compare the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of three …
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In two-person generosity games, the proposer’s agreement payoff is exogenously given, whereas that of the responder is endogenously determined by the proposer’s choice of the pie size. In three-person generosity games, equal agreement payoffs for two of the players are either exogenously...
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outcomes of either the individual herself or her reference group. The experiment described in this paper suggests that, in …
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The paper presents a complete information model of bidding in second price sealed-bid and ascending-bid (English) auctions, in which potential buyers know the unit valuation of other bidders and may spitefully prefer that their rivals earn a lower surplus. Bidders with spiteful preferences...
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The literature on social norms has often stressed that social disapproval is crucial to foster compliance with norms and promote fair and cooperative behavior. With this in mind, we explore the disapproval of allocation decisions using experimental data from five dictator games with a feedback...
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We report results from experimental first-price, sealed-bid, all-pay auctions for a good with a common and known value. We observe bidding strategies in groups of two and three bidders and under two extreme information conditions. As predicted by the Nash equilibrium, subjects use mixed...
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