• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: Information Avoidance and Medical Screening : A Field Experiment in China
  • Beteiligte: Li, Yufeng [Verfasser:in]; Meng, Juanjuan [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Song, Changcheng [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Zheng, Kai [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
  • Erschienen: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2020]
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (88 p)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3192295
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  • Anmerkungen: In: Management Science (forthcoming)
    Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 24, 2020 erstellt
  • Beschreibung: Will individuals, especially high-risk individuals, avoid a disease test because of information avoidance? We conduct a field experiment to investigate this issue. We vary the price of a diabetes test (price experiment) and offer both a diabetes test and a cancer test (disease experiment) after eliciting participants' subjective beliefs about their disease risk. We find evidence that, first, some people avoid the test even when there is neither a monetary nor transaction cost; and second, both low- and high-risk individuals select out of the test as the price increases. We explain our findings using three classes of anticipatory utility models
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