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 |
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2021
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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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