Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76159 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 0412
Publisher: 
University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute, Zurich
Abstract: 
Discrete-choice experiments, while becoming increasingly popular, have rarely been tested for validity and reliability. This contribution purports to provide some evidence of a rather unique type. Two surveys designed to measure willingness-to-accept (WTA) for reform options in Swiss health care and health insurance are used to provide independent information with regard to two elements of reform. The issue to be addressed is whether WTA values converge although the three overlapping attributes (a more restrictive drug benefit, a delayed access to medical innovation, and a change in the monthly insurance premium) are embedded in widely differing choice sets. Experiment A contains rather radical health system reform options, while experiment B concentrates on more familiar elements such as copayment and the benefit catalogue. While mean WTA values differ between experiments, they tend to vary in similar ways, suggesting at least theoretical validity and reliability.
Subjects: 
willingness-to-pay
discrete choice experiments
validity
reliability
framing effects
JEL: 
C35
C93
I11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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