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 a 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 models of anticipatory utility.
基金:
National University of Singapore Initiative; Glaxo Smith Kline Economic Development Board (Singapore) Trust FundSingapore Economic Development Board; National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [71822301, 71103003, 71471004]; Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project [YETP0040]; Solareast Corporation; Key Laboratory of Mathematical Economics and Quantitative Finance (Peking University)
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外文
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大类|2 区管理科学
小类|2 区运筹学与管理科学
最新[2025]版:
大类|2 区管理学
小类|2 区运筹学与管理科学3 区管理学
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Q1MANAGEMENTQ1OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
最新[2023]版:
Q1MANAGEMENTQ1OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
第一作者单位:[1]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Friendship Hosp, Pinggu Campus, Beijing 101200, Peoples R China
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Li Yufeng,Meng Juanjuan,Song Changcheng,et al.Information Avoidance and Medical Screening: A Field Experiment in China[J].MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.2021,67(7):4252-4272.doi:10.1287/mnsc.2020.3723.
APA:
Li, Yufeng,Meng, Juanjuan,Song, Changcheng&Zheng, Kai.(2021).Information Avoidance and Medical Screening: A Field Experiment in China.MANAGEMENT SCIENCE,67,(7)
MLA:
Li, Yufeng,et al."Information Avoidance and Medical Screening: A Field Experiment in China".MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 67..7(2021):4252-4272