Informing the Public About a Pandemic

This paper explores how governments may efficiently inform the public about an epidemic to induce compliance with their confinement measures. Using information design framework, we find government has incentive either downplay or exaggerate severity of if it heavily prioritizes economy over population health vice versa. Importantly, that level economic inequality in effect on these distortions. The more unequal disease’s impact population, less exaggerates and downplays epidemic. When weighs sufficiently equally, however, should always be fully transparent was accepted by Stefan Scholtes, healthcare management.