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标题：Which patients do I treat? An experimental study with economists and physicians
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作者：Marlies Ahlert ; Stefan Felder ; Bodo Vogt 等
期刊名称：Health Economics Review
印刷版ISSN：2191-1991
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：1
DOI：10.1186/2191-1991-2-1
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：This experiment investigates decisions made by prospective economists and physicians in an allocation problem which can be framed either medically or neutrally. The potential recipients differ with respect to their minimum needs as well as to how much they benefit from a treatment. We classify the allocators as either 'selfish', 'Rawlsian', or 'maximizing the number of recipients'. Economists tend to maximize their own payoff, whereas the physicians' choices are more in line with maximizing the number of recipients and with Rawlsianism. Regarding the framing, we observe that professional norms surface more clearly in familiar settings. Finally, we scrutinize how the probability of being served and the allocated quantity depend on a recipient's characteristics as well as on the allocator type. JEL Classification: A13, I19, C91, C72
关键词：experimental economics ; social orientation ; individual choices ; allocation of medical resources ; principles of distribution