In the last journal round up, we featured a paper that found that gains to life were valued higher than gains to consumption under standard assumptions about preferences. This sounds like one of those common… Read More »Three arguments in favour of a negative social discount rate
claimtoken-539efc0fe87b4 Back in March I made a note to myself to write a paper – or, more likely, a blog post – presenting a taxonomy of behavioural interventions. I had gotten tired of everything being… Read More »A taxonomy of behavioural interventions
The use of labour market outcomes in the Value Based Pricing scheme is inconsistent with the concept of value This year, the Department of Health in the UK will begin using a new system of… Read More »The ‘value’ in value based pricing
Some recent research from the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University has quantified something that we are all aware of: fudging in the measurement of health-related quality of life. They have found that, on… Read More »The ‘Q’ in the QALY: are we fudging it?