全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Learning During a Crisis: the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w16955
来源ID	Working Paper 16955
	Learning During a Crisis: the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan
	Daniel Bennett; Chun-Fang Chiang; Anup Malani
发表日期	2011-04-14
出版年	2011
语种	英语
摘要	When SARS struck Taiwan in the spring of 2003, many people feared that the disease would spread through the healthcare system. As a result, outpatient medical visits fell by over 30 percent in the course of a few weeks. This paper examines how both public information (SARS incidence reports) and private information (the behavior and opinions of peers) contributed to this public reaction. We identify social learning through a difference-in-difference strategy that compares long time community residents to recent arrivals, who are less socially connected. We find that people learned from both public and private sources during SARS. In a dynamic simulation based on the regressions, social learning substantially magnifes the response to SARS.
主题	Microeconomics ; Economics of Information ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w16955
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574630
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Daniel Bennett,Chun-Fang Chiang,Anup Malani. Learning During a Crisis: the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan. 2011.