Publication: Stop! The Polio Vaccination Cessation Game
Date
2011-03-30
ISSN
1564-698X
Published
2011-03-30
Author(s)
Barrett, Scott
Abstract
Should polio be eradicated worldwide, countries must decide whether to continue to
vaccinate with the live-attenuated vaccine, to continue to vaccinate with the alternative,
killed vaccine, or to cease vaccinating. To reap a dividend from polio eradication,
countries must choose the last option, but vaccination cessation entails interdependent
risks as well as rewards. This article models the polio vaccination cessation game,
deriving the conditions that support vaccination cessation as an equilibrium, describing
the policies and institutions needed to steer countries toward this equilibrium, and
presenting crude quantitative estimates of the gains to supporting this equilibrium.
Citation
“Barrett, Scott. 2011. Stop! The Polio Vaccination Cessation Game. World Bank Economic Review. © World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/059c261d-a35d-5575-9703-10bbdc9dd544 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO.”
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