ABSTRACT

Using different versions of a vignette, this study examines how preferences for redistributive healthcare change as luck plays a progressively stronger role in contributing to wealth and poverty. Participants saw one version of a vignette that describes why someone is wealthy or poor, with wealth and poverty stemming from effort, various mixtures of effort and luck, one dimension of luck, or two dimensions of luck. Results show that support for redistributive healthcare increases as bad luck becomes marginally more important in causing poverty but is unaffected as good luck becomes marginally more important in causing wealth. These results imply that preferences for redistributive healthcare may be sensitive to information that points to the unlucky barriers (headwinds) that affect the poor but insensitive to information that points to the lucky blessings (tailwinds) that affect the wealthy.

摘要

本研究使用不同版本的小插图，检验了随着运气在促进财富和贫困方面发挥越来越大的作用，对再分配医疗保健的偏好如何变化。参与者看到了一个版本的小插图，它描述了一个人为什么富有或贫穷，财富和贫穷源于努力，努力和运气的各种混合，一个维度的运气，或两个维度的运气。结果表明，随着厄运在导致贫困方面的重要性略微增加，对再分配医疗保健的支持会增加，但不会受到影响，因为好运在导致财富方面的重要性略有增加。