Do social preferences explain health inequality aversion?

Published: 21 July 2025| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/b73p83csty.1
Contributors:
Matthew Robson,
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Description

This code accompanies the paper Robson, Doran, O'Donnell and Van Ourti (2025), "Do social preferences explain health inequality aversion?". In the paper, we design and run an online experiment, with a sample of the UK adult population, to estimate health inequality aversion at the individual level. We additionally elicit social preferences over own and others' health, alongside a rich set of socio-demographics, to explain variation in health inequality aversion. Here, we provide data and code of the experiment and our analysis. The Experiment folder contains an R-Shiny app to run our experiment. The Stata folder contains experimental data and analytical code. Note that we have removed some variables from the dataset, due to data privacy. Please contact us if you have any questions or want to request the full dataset.

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Steps to reproduce

View notes in R and Stata files for instructions of how to use.

Institutions

University of York, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Erasmus School of Economics

Categories

Health Inequality, Health Economics, Experimental Economics, Welfare Analysis

Funding

Wellcome Trust

205427/Z/16/Z

Erasmus Initiative Smarter Choices for Better Health

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