A consistency test of the time trade-off


Autoria(s): Bleichrodt, Han; Pinto, José Luis; Abellán-Perpiñán, José María
Contribuinte(s)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa

Data(s)

15/09/2005

Resumo

This paper tests the internal consistency of time trade-off utilities.We find significant violations of consistency in the direction predictedby loss aversion. The violations disappear for higher gauge durations.We show that loss aversion can also explain that for short gaugedurations time trade-off utilities exceed standard gamble utilities. Ourresults suggest that time trade-off measurements that use relativelyshort gauge durations, like the widely used EuroQol algorithm(Dolan 1997), are affected by loss aversion and lead to utilities thatare too high.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10230/741

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eng

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Palavras-Chave #Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics #cost-utility analysis #time trade-off #loss aversion
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