We conducted a discrete-choice conjoint analysis on a sample of residents in Italy to explore trade-offs between human lives, individual freedoms, and the economy that governments and their citizens face while coping with a public health crisis. Our results indicate that people prefer to avoid income losses over reduction in the number of victims by the same percentage. The relative preference for saving income over saving lives widens as the size of losses at stake increases. The duration of restrictions to individual freedoms per se does not appear to have a sizable impact on people's preferences once income and human losses are accounted for. Our study contributes to scholarship on the value of a statistical life and sheds light on morally problematic trade-offs. Further, we illustrate how conjoint analysis through discrete choice modeling can address public administration and policy issues that are inherently multidimensional.

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你的钱，你的生活，还是你的自由？公共卫生危机期间权衡取舍的离散选择实验

我们对意大利居民样本进行了离散选择联合分析，以探索政府及其公民在应对公共卫生危机时面临的人类生命、个人自由和经济之间的权衡。我们的结果表明，人们更愿意避免收入损失，而不是将受害者人数减少相同的百分比。随着风险损失规模的增加，储蓄收入相对于挽救生命的相对偏好会扩大。一旦考虑到收入和人员损失，对个人自由本身的限制持续时间似乎不会对人们的偏好产生相当大的影响。我们的研究有助于研究统计生命的价值，并阐明道德上有问题的权衡取舍。更远，