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Published on: September 19, 2012
Decomposing social risk preferences for health and wealth
Arthur E Attema1, Olivier L'Haridon2, Gijs van de Kuilen3
1EsCHER, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Abstract:
This study reports the results of the first artefactual field experiment designed to measure the prevalence of aversion toward different components of social risks in a large and demographically representative sample. We identify social risk preferences for health and wealth for losses and gains, and decompose these attitudes into four different dimensions: individual risk, collective risk, ex-post inequality, and ex-ante inequality. The results of a non-parametric analysis suggest that aversion to risk and inequality is the mean preference for outcomes in health and wealth in the domain of gains and losses. A parametric decomposition of aversion to risk and inequality shows that respondents are averse to ex-post and ex-ante inequality in health and wealth for gains and losses. Likewise, respondents are averse to collective risk, but neutral to individual risk, which highlights the importance of considering different components of social risk preferences when managing social health and wealth risks.
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