Are distributional preferences for safety stable? A longitudinal analysis before and after the COVID-19 outbreak.

ABSTRACT: Policy makers aim to respect public preferences when making trade-offs between policies, yet most estimates of the value of safety neglect individuals' preferences over how safety is distributed. Incorporating these preferences into policy first requires measuring them. Arroyos-Calvera et al. (2019) documented that people cared most about efficiency, but that equity followed closely, and self-interest mattered too, but not enough to override preferences for efficiency and equity. Early 2020 saw the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This event would impose major changes in how people perceived and experienced risk to life, creating an opportunity to test whether safety-related preferences are stable and robust to important contextual changes. Further developing Arroyos-Calvera et al.'s met

SUBMITTER: Arroyos-Calvera D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10035807 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature