Do people have a preference for increasing or decreasing pain? An experimental comparison of psychological and economic measures in health related decision making
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Keywords
pain; peak-end-rule; willingness-to-pay;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
- C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2012-07-23 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EVO-2012-07-23 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2012-07-23 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2012-07-23 (Health Economics)
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