The Effect of Information on Health Risk Valuations

Alan Krupnick () and Maureen Cropper

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1992, vol. 5, issue 1, 29-48

Abstract: This article examines the effect of familiarity with chronic lung disease on people's willingness to pay to reduce their risk of contracting chronic bronchitis, and on their willingness to increase their risk of auto death to reduce chronic bronchitis risk. The authors find that persons who have a relative with chronic lung disease are willing to give up more income to reduce their risk of chronic bronchitis than persons with no first-hand knowledge of the disease; however, their willingness to increase their risk of auto death to reduce their risk of chronic bronchitis is no different, on average, than persons with no first-hand knowledge of lung disease. This suggests that responses to risk-risk tradeoffs may be more stable than responses to risk-income choices. Copyright 1992 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1992
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