Pure altruism and misjudgement: A bad combination?

Stated preference studies on the value of health risk reductions have found valuations elicited from a private perspective to be both higher and lower compared to valuations elicited from a public perspective. Although relevant, the individual's ability to correctly predict the valuation that other individuals assign to the risk reduction has been insufficiently researched. We aim to verify whether individuals exhibit pure altruistic preferences and if this is the case, whether the presence of pure altruism leads to biased valuation of public risk reductions due to misjudgement about other individuals' preferences.

What explains differences in waiting times for health care across socioeconomic status?

In publicly funded health systems, waiting times act as a rationing mechanism that should be based on need rather than socioeconomic status. However, several studies suggest that individuals with higher socioeconomic status wait less. Using individual-level data from administrative registers, we estimate and explain socioeconomic inequalities in access to publicly funded care for seven planned hospital procedures in Denmark.