| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27941 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27941 |
| A Theory of Voluntary Testing and Self-isolation in an Ongoing Pandemic | |
| Thomas F. Hellmann; Veikko Thiele | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-10-12 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Thinking beyond Covid-19, there is a growing interest in what economic structures will be needed to face ongoing pandemics. In this paper we focus on the diagnostic problem and examine a new paradigm of voluntary self-testing by private individuals. People without symptoms face daily choices of either taking the risk of going out (to work and socialize), versus staying at home in self-isolation. Our theory shows that two types of people voluntary test themselves: those who otherwise would have self-isolated, and those who would have gone out indiscriminately. Our central insight is that the equilibrium infection risk falls when home-based testing becomes cheaper and easier to use, even if tests are not always accurate. Our results challenge the clinical mainstream view that diagnostic testing is a prerogative of the medical profession, and supports the notion that frequent self-testing is vital for an economy facing an ongoing pandemic. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Economics of Information ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; COVID-19 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27941 |
| 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/585615 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Thomas F. Hellmann,Veikko Thiele. A Theory of Voluntary Testing and Self-isolation in an Ongoing Pandemic. 2020. |
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