title: Willingness to pay for reductions in health risks when probabilities are distorted.
abstract: We study the willingness to pay for reductions in health risks when people do not evaluate probabilities linearly, as is commonly assumed in elicitations of willingness to pay, but weight probabilities, as is commonly observed in empirical studies of decision under risk. We show that for the levels of baseline risk typically considered, probability weighting strongly affects willingness to pay estimates and may lead to unstable monetary valuations of health.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. bleichrodt@few.eur.nl
authors.forename: Han
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bleichrodt
authors.forename: Louis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Eeckhoudt
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D005382:Financing, Personal; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011336:Probability; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior