Health-related externalities: evidence from a choice experiment
Health-related externalities: evidence from a choice experiment
Health-related external benefits are of potentially large importance for public policy. This paper investigates
health-related external benefits using a stated-preference discrete-choice experiment framed in a health care context and including choice scenarios defined by six attributes related to a recipient and the recipient’s condition: communicability, severity, medical necessity, relationship to respondent, location, and amount of contribution requested. Subjects also completed a set of own-treatment scenarios and a values-orientation instrument. We find evidence of substantial health-related external benefits that vary as expected with the scenario attributes and subjects’ value orientations. The results are consistent with a number of hypotheses offered by the general theoretical analysis of health-related externalities and the analysis of externalities specific to health care.
externalities, altruism, health care financing, program evaluation
671-681
Hurley, Jeremiah
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Mentzakis, Emmanouil
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July 2013
Hurley, Jeremiah
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Mentzakis, Emmanouil
c0922185-18c7-49c2-a659-8ee6d89b5d74
Abstract
Health-related external benefits are of potentially large importance for public policy. This paper investigates
health-related external benefits using a stated-preference discrete-choice experiment framed in a health care context and including choice scenarios defined by six attributes related to a recipient and the recipient’s condition: communicability, severity, medical necessity, relationship to respondent, location, and amount of contribution requested. Subjects also completed a set of own-treatment scenarios and a values-orientation instrument. We find evidence of substantial health-related external benefits that vary as expected with the scenario attributes and subjects’ value orientations. The results are consistent with a number of hypotheses offered by the general theoretical analysis of health-related externalities and the analysis of externalities specific to health care.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 8 April 2013
Published date: July 2013
Keywords:
externalities, altruism, health care financing, program evaluation
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Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences
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Local EPrints ID: 353811
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/353811
ISSN: 0167-6296
PURE UUID: 0039ff66-3ed0-4425-bd7e-3737886b4d04
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Jeremiah Hurley
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