RAPID Collaborative Research: Economic Preferences and Preventative Health Measures During a Pandemic

RAPID 合作研究：大流行期间的经济偏好和预防性健康措施

• 批准号: 2031465
• 负责人: Billur Aksoy
• 金额: $ 4.42万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031465&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Economic; Preferences

The research team will conduct choice experiments combined with a survey to determine how the COVID-19 pandemic may be shaping economic preferences. They also want to determine whether those preferences are correlated with preventive health actions taken by individuals. The project will include subjects from a variety of different racial and ethnic groups, to get solid information on the groups that to date have been especially affected by COVID-19 in the United States. The project should help us understand whether and how methods developed for use in behavioral economics and consumer choice can also help us predict the extent of health promoting behaviors. The results may also give us new insights into how to best target public health communications.The experimental tasks will measure risk tolerance, time preference, altruism, willingness to contribute to public goods, cooperation, willingness to lie in self-protection, preference for competition, and over/under confidence. Economic theory suggests that each of these aspects of individual preferences play a role in determining the extent to which a given individual carries out recommended health behaviors. Examples of these behaviors are wearing a mask (altruism, willingness to contribute to public goods), truthfully informing others about possible exposure (willingness to lie), avoiding crowds and indoor spaces (risk tolerance, over confidence), and limiting social gatherings today for future benefits (time preference). Survey methods will be used to measure health behaviors. The team will use the data to test whether or not economic preference measurements do indeed predict health behaviors.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

研究团队将进行选择实验并结合调查，以确定 COVID-19 大流行可能如何影响经济偏好。他们还想确定这些偏好是否与个人采取的预防性健康行动相关。该项目将包括来自各种不同种族和族裔群体的受试者，以获得迄今为止在美国特别受 COVID-19 影响的群体的可靠信息。该项目应该帮助我们了解行为经济学和消费者选择中使用的方法是否以及如何帮助我们预测健康促进行为的程度。研究结果还可能为我们如何最好地定位公共卫生传播提供新的见解。实验任务将衡量风险承受能力、时间偏好、利他主义、为公共物品做出贡献的意愿、合作、自我保护的意愿、竞争偏好以及过度/自信。经济理论表明，个人偏好的每个方面都在决定特定个人执行建议的健康行为的程度方面发挥着作用。这些行为的例子包括戴口罩（利他主义、愿意为公共物品做出贡献）、如实告知他人可能的暴露情况（愿意撒谎）、避开人群和室内空间（风险容忍、过度自信）以及为了未来的利益而限制今天的社交聚会（时间偏好）。将使用调查方法来衡量健康行为。该团队将使用这些数据来测试经济偏好测量是否确实可以预测健康行为。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。