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8 papers
The Longitudinal Health, Income, and Employment Model (LHIEM): a discrete-time microsimulation model for policy analysis
Adrienne M. Propp, Raffaele Vardavas, Carter C. Price +1
Dynamic microsimulation has long been recognized as a powerful tool for policy analysis, but in fact most major health policy simulations lack path dependency, a critical feature f…
Masking Behaviors in Epidemiological Networks with Cognitively-plausible Reinforcement Learning
Konstantinos Mitsopoulos, Lawrence Baker, Christian Lebiere +3
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical role of human behavior in influencing infectious disease transmission and the need for models capturing this complex dynamic. We pres…
Modeling the Impact of Social Distancing and Targeted Vaccination on the Spread of COVID-19 through a Real City-Scale Contact Network
Gavin S. Hartnett, Edward Parker, Timothy R. Gulden +2
We use mobile device data to construct empirical interpersonal physical contact networks in the city of Portland, Oregon, both before and after social distancing measures were enac…
Deep Generative Modeling in Network Science with Applications to Public Policy Research
Gavin S. Hartnett, Raffaele Vardavas, Lawrence Baker +5
Network data is increasingly being used in quantitative, data-driven public policy research. These are typically very rich datasets that contain complex correlations and inter-depe…
Policy-focused Agent-based Modeling using RL Behavioral Models
Osonde A. Osoba, Raffaele Vardavas, Justin Grana +2
Agent-based Models (ABMs) are valuable tools for policy analysis. ABMs help analysts explore the emergent consequences of policy interventions in multi-agent decision-making settin…
The Vaccinee's Dilemma: Individual-level Decisions, Self- Organization & Influenza Epidemics
Raffaele Vardavas, Romulus Breban, Sally Blower
Inspired by Minority Games, we constructed a novel individual-level game of adaptive decision-making based on the dilemma of deciding whether to participate in voluntary influenza…