全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Sacred Values? The Effect of Information on Attitudes toward Payments for Human Organs

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20866
来源ID	Working Paper 20866
	Sacred Values? The Effect of Information on Attitudes toward Payments for Human Organs
	Julio J. Elias; Nicola Lacetera; Mario Macis
发表日期	2015-01-19
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	Many economic transactions are prohibited—even in the absence of health or safety concerns or negative externalities—because of ethical concerns that cause these exchanges to be perceived as “repugnant” if conducted through a market. Establishing a system of payments for human organs is a particularly relevant example given its implications for public health; in almost all countries, these payments are prohibited because they are considered morally unacceptable—a prohibition that societies seem to accept despite the long waitlists and high death rates for people needing a transplant. We investigate how deeply rooted these attitudes are and, in particular, whether providing information on how a price mechanism can help alleviate the organ shortage changes people’s opinions about the legalization of these transactions. We conducted a survey experiment with 3,417 subjects in the U.S. and found that providing information significantly increased support for payments for organs from a baseline of 52% to 72%, and this increase applied to most of the relevant subgroups of the analyzed sample. Additional analyses on the support for other morally controversial activities show that attitude changes in response to information depend on the type of activity under consideration and interactions with other beliefs.
主题	Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Public Economics ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Other ; Law and Economics ; Culture
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20866
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578541
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Julio J. Elias,Nicola Lacetera,Mario Macis. Sacred Values? The Effect of Information on Attitudes toward Payments for Human Organs. 2015.