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How to make universal, voluntary testing for COVID-19 work? A behavioural economics perspective
Testing is widely seen as one core element of a successful strategy to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic and many countries have increased their efforts to provide testing at large scale. As most democratic governments refrain from enacting mandatory testing, a key emerging challenge is to increase volu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8450724/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34090724 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.05.003 |
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author | Fallucchi, Francesco Görges, Luise Machado, Joël Pieters, Arne Suhrcke, Marc |
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description | Testing is widely seen as one core element of a successful strategy to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic and many countries have increased their efforts to provide testing at large scale. As most democratic governments refrain from enacting mandatory testing, a key emerging challenge is to increase voluntary participation. Using behavioural economics insights complemented with data from a novel survey in the US and a survey experiment in Luxembourg, we examine behavioural factors associated with the individual willingness to get tested (WTT). In our analysis, individual characteristics that correlate positively with WTT include age, altruism, conformism, the tendency to abide by government-imposed rules, concern about contracting COVID-19, and patience. Risk aversion, unemployment, and conservative political orientation correlate negatively with WTT. Building on and expanding these insights may prove fruitful for policy to effectively raise people's propensity to get tested. |
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spelling | pubmed-84507242021-09-20 How to make universal, voluntary testing for COVID-19 work? A behavioural economics perspective Fallucchi, Francesco Görges, Luise Machado, Joël Pieters, Arne Suhrcke, Marc Health Policy Health Reform Monitor Testing is widely seen as one core element of a successful strategy to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic and many countries have increased their efforts to provide testing at large scale. As most democratic governments refrain from enacting mandatory testing, a key emerging challenge is to increase voluntary participation. Using behavioural economics insights complemented with data from a novel survey in the US and a survey experiment in Luxembourg, we examine behavioural factors associated with the individual willingness to get tested (WTT). In our analysis, individual characteristics that correlate positively with WTT include age, altruism, conformism, the tendency to abide by government-imposed rules, concern about contracting COVID-19, and patience. Risk aversion, unemployment, and conservative political orientation correlate negatively with WTT. Building on and expanding these insights may prove fruitful for policy to effectively raise people's propensity to get tested. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-08 2021-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8450724/ /pubmed/34090724 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.05.003 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Health Reform Monitor Fallucchi, Francesco Görges, Luise Machado, Joël Pieters, Arne Suhrcke, Marc How to make universal, voluntary testing for COVID-19 work? A behavioural economics perspective |
title | How to make universal, voluntary testing for COVID-19 work? A behavioural economics perspective |
title_full | How to make universal, voluntary testing for COVID-19 work? A behavioural economics perspective |
title_fullStr | How to make universal, voluntary testing for COVID-19 work? A behavioural economics perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | How to make universal, voluntary testing for COVID-19 work? A behavioural economics perspective |
title_short | How to make universal, voluntary testing for COVID-19 work? A behavioural economics perspective |
title_sort | how to make universal, voluntary testing for covid-19 work? a behavioural economics perspective |
topic | Health Reform Monitor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8450724/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34090724 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.05.003 |
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