Willingness‐to‐pay for a statistical life in the times of a pandemic
基于流感大流行情景的在线调查，发现焦虑者高估死亡风险和治疗收益，支付意愿更高但隐含的统计生命价值更低，表明恐惧扭曲不确定性下的决策。
A contingent valuation was performed based on cross-sectional web-based interviews of individuals aged 16-82 years of age presenting a scenario of influenza pandemic. The mean WTP for a course of Tamiflu was NOK 1034 (median NOK 250). Anxious individuals perceived the pandemic mortality risk to be higher than others, but also perceived the benefit of Tamiflu as greater. They also expressed a higher WTP for Tamiflu, but the implied VOSL was less than for other respondents. The results suggest that fear and anxiety distort decision making under uncertainty and decrease focus on the perceived risk reduction.