TY - JOUR
T1 - Are preferences stable? The case of health care
AU - San Miguel, Fernando
AU - Ryan, Mandy
AU - Scott, Anthony
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Government of Navarre is acknowledged. The out-of-hours study was funded by the NHS Research and Development Programme (Primary Secondary Care Interface). Thanks to Stuart Watson and Sue Ross who were grantholders in the main study. The Health Economics Research Unit is funded by Chief Scientist Office on the Scottish Executive Department of Health (SEDH). The views are those of the authors and not SEDH.
PY - 2002/5
Y1 - 2002/5
N2 - Experiments concerned with modelling individual preferences are based on the assumption of stability of preferences. Violations of the stability assumption have implications for the increasing amount of experimental work in health care concerned with the welfare implications of alternative policies. This paper reports the results of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) carried out to examine the effect of experience on stability of preferences within health care. Whilst the results provide evidence of stability, further research is required before these results are generalised.
AB - Experiments concerned with modelling individual preferences are based on the assumption of stability of preferences. Violations of the stability assumption have implications for the increasing amount of experimental work in health care concerned with the welfare implications of alternative policies. This paper reports the results of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) carried out to examine the effect of experience on stability of preferences within health care. Whilst the results provide evidence of stability, further research is required before these results are generalised.
KW - Discrete choice experiments
KW - Health care
KW - Stability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0036203788&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0167-2681(01)00220-7
DO - 10.1016/S0167-2681(01)00220-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036203788
SN - 0167-2681
VL - 48
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
JF - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
IS - 1
ER -
