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SUBMITTER: Ahlert M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3402930 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahlert Marlies M Felder Stefan S Vogt Bodo B
Health economics review 20120105 1
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 ...[more]