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For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior
We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in the UK. We estimate a model of compliance choice with uncertain costs and benefits to quantify utility tradeoffs, decompose group differences in compliance, and compute monetary compensations for complying. Individuals have largest disutility from passing away from COVID and being caught transgressing, and largest utility from preserving their mental health. While preferences and beliefs explain compliance differences by gender, only preferences drive differences by vulnerability. When others fail to comply and trust breaks down, the risk tolerant and those without prior COVID experience comply less, the vulnerables more. When a public figure breaches the rules, opponents comply less. Heterogenous beliefs, preferences, and responses to others are key to health policies.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16143
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
Expectations; Speculations
Health Behavior
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- Subject
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health behaviors
beliefs
preferences
COVID-19
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Conti, Gabriella
Giustinelli, Pamela
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Conti, Gabriella
- Giustinelli, Pamela
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2023
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