An Impossible Undertaking: The Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis in the United States
分析了1917年后美国农业部如何通过检测和补偿机制根除牛结核病，成功控制疾病并带来超过成本十倍的收益，对研究激励设计和公共政策的经济学者有参考价值。
In 1917, after scientific breakthroughs allowed for the early detection of bovine tuberculosis, the USDA began a campaign to eradicate the disease. Agents inspected nearly every cattle farm in the country and condemned roughly 4 million reactors to slaughter without full compensation. This article analyzes how the eradication program functioned, how incentives were aligned to ensure widespread participation without excessive moral hazard problems, and why the United States led most European nations in controlling the disease. The U.S. campaign was a spectacular success, reducing human suffering and death and yielding benefits in the farm sector alone that exceeded ten times the cost.