Information avoidance and medical screening: A field experiment in China

Information avoidance and medical screening: A field experiment in China

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 elic...

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Main Authors: LI, Yufeng, MENG, Juanjuan, SONG, Changcheng, ZHENG, Kai
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
Subjects:
Anticipation Utility
Information Avoidance
Health Anxiety
Health Screening
Behavioral Economics
Finance and Financial Management
Public Health
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6729
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7728/viewcontent/Information_Avoidance_Med_Screen_av.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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