Good essay by Gov. Mike DeWine on Ohio’s Vaccine Lottery.
But this gave me pause:
DeWine quoted baseball owner Bill Veeck, “To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy.”
1. NO WAY...
nytimes.com/2021/05/26/opi…
But this gave me pause:
DeWine quoted baseball owner Bill Veeck, “To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy.”
1. NO WAY...
nytimes.com/2021/05/26/opi…
2/
First of all, has DeWine or Veeck ever been to a party? The best parties are giving a beer to a 1000 people. The worst party is where one guy has a thousand beers.
(You know what I mean).
And this is really about happiness, diminishing utility, and policy.
First of all, has DeWine or Veeck ever been to a party? The best parties are giving a beer to a 1000 people. The worst party is where one guy has a thousand beers.
(You know what I mean).
And this is really about happiness, diminishing utility, and policy.
3/ DeWine says his team discussed cash payments or prizes for each person who got the shot. But they loved the flashiness of the lottery.
First: Do we really know whether the lottery was more effective than cash or other prizes?
First: Do we really know whether the lottery was more effective than cash or other prizes?
4/ This study suggests that cash payments are effective with Democrats, but Democrats are already getting the shot.
Republicans respond to relaxed safety guidelines. And maybe that should have been the more explicit link, but party politics got in the way.
nytimes.com/2021/05/04/ups…
Republicans respond to relaxed safety guidelines. And maybe that should have been the more explicit link, but party politics got in the way.
nytimes.com/2021/05/04/ups…
5/ But here's my concern about lotteries:
There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that lottery winners are net *less happy* after winning, due to "be careful what you wish for."
Friends & family expectations and jealousy. Sudden lifestyle change whiplash. Addiction...
There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that lottery winners are net *less happy* after winning, due to "be careful what you wish for."
Friends & family expectations and jealousy. Sudden lifestyle change whiplash. Addiction...
6/ I understand the poetic justice/logic of a lottery for the vaccine-skeptics:
Fight scientific illiteracy with financial innumeracy.
But I was hoping for "labs of democracy," some states using lotteries, some paying each person $100 or $500... and let's see what works?
Fight scientific illiteracy with financial innumeracy.
But I was hoping for "labs of democracy," some states using lotteries, some paying each person $100 or $500... and let's see what works?
7/ I appreciate DeWine's pro-vaccine creativity. But I'd also love to use this crisis to learn about public policy & human psychology.
Could another creative state please try to use other incentives? Why didn't we tie together stimulus payments with vaccine shot payments?
Could another creative state please try to use other incentives? Why didn't we tie together stimulus payments with vaccine shot payments?
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