About the Authors

Jeffrey Chow

Affiliation School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Eili Y. Klein

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Ramanan Laxminarayan

Ramanan@rff.org

Affiliations Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy, Washington, D. C., United States of America, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC EYK RL. Analyzed the data: JC EYK RL. Wrote the paper: JC EYK RL.