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Preferences for equity in health behind a veil of ignorance

Author

Summary, in English

Individual attitudes to distributions of life years between two groups in a society are explored by means of an experiment. Subjects are asked to place themselves behind a veil of ignorance which is specified in terms of risk (known probabilities) for some subjects and in terms of uncertainty (unknown probabilities) for some subjects. The latter is argued to be the appropriate interpretation of Rawls’ notion. It is found that subjects exhibit convex preferences over life years for the two groups, and that preferences do not differ between the risk and the uncertainty specifications.

Publishing year

1999

Language

English

Pages

78-369

Publication/Series

Health Economics

Volume

8

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • Rawls
  • veil of ignorance
  • genuine uncertainty
  • health
  • equity
  • trade-off

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1099-1050