ArticleTheory and decision2017
A triple test for behavioral economics models and public health policy.
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- The effects of message framing and healthcare provider recommendation on adult hepatitis B vaccination: A randomized controlled trial.Preventive medicine · 2019Trial
- Integrating economics into the rationale for multisectoral action on obesity.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2018Review
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Abstract
We propose a triple test to evaluate the usefulness of behavioral economics models for public health policy. Test 1 is whether the model provides reasonably new insights. Test 2 is on whether these have been properly applied to policy settings. Test 3 is whether they are corroborated by evidence. We exemplify by considering the cases of social interactions models, self-control models and, in relation to health message framing, prospect theory. Out of these sets of models, only a correctly applied prospect theory fully passes the tests at present. Specifically, in broad agreement with the evidence, a gain frame has positive implications for welfare encourages disease prevention activity, though this does not apply if the perceived probability of the bad health outcome is large enough. We see our tests as being useful to identify how much health policy weight policy makers should assign to specific behavioral economic models; they are also useful to verify what next steps would be most useful in further research.
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