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Melkonyan, Tigran A., Safra, Zvi and Ma, Sinong (2021) Justice in an uncertain world : evidence on donations to cancer research. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 62 (3). pp. 281-311. doi:10.1007/s11166-021-09348-7 ISSN 0895-5646.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-021-09348-7
Abstract
The paper uses information on actual and hypothetical charitable contributions to cancer research in the United Kingdom to elicit information on justice principles endorsed by donors. They face a choice between fund-raising contributions for several hereditary and lifestyle-related cancers. Donors’ choices of how much to donate to different cancers reveal how they view luck vis-a-vis risky individual choices. The estimation results reveal that donations are smaller for cancers with higher prevention rates, which is the probability that the potential cancer victim can avoid the cancer in question by some choice. We also find that provision of information on lifestyle-related causes of cancer adversely affects contributions. In contrast, information on hereditary causes has a positive effect on donations. Furthermore, a large share of donors indicated in their feedback that they chose donations to a hereditary over a lifestyle-related cancer to “punish” poor individual choices. These findings suggest that many donors lean toward choice egalitarianism, which conditions donations on the potential beneficiaries’ choices.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Endowments, Cancer -- Research, Charities, Equality, Choice (Psychology) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Risk and Uncertainty | ||||||
Publisher: | Springer New York LLC | ||||||
ISSN: | 0895-5646 | ||||||
Official Date: | 7 August 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 62 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 281-311 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11166-021-09348-7 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11166-021-09348-7 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 April 2021 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 August 2022 | ||||||
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