Disease Eradication: Private versus Public Vaccination

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 222-230

  Geoffard, Pierre Yves ^a   Philipson, Tomas ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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