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Trade-offs during the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorFilipe, Luís
dc.contributor.authorAlmeida, Sara Cristina Cantarino Valente de
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Eduardo
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Joana Gomes da
dc.contributor.authorLopes, Francisca Vargas
dc.contributor.authorSantos, João Vasco
dc.contributor.institutionNOVA School of Business and Economics (NOVA SBE)
dc.contributor.pblPLOS - Public Library of Science
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-20T22:07:55Z
dc.date.available2023-11-20T22:07:55Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-16
dc.description.abstractThe need to control the sanitary situation during the COVID-19 pandemic has led governments to implement several restrictions with substantial social and economic impacts. We explored people’s trade-offs in terms of their income, life restrictions, education, and poverty in the society, compared to their willingness to avoid deaths. We applied a web-based discrete choice experiment to elicit preferences of the Portuguese citizens for these attributes and computed the marginal rate of substitution in terms of avoided deaths. We recorded 2,191 responses that faced the possibility of having 250 COVID-19 related deaths per day as the worst possible outcome from the choice levels presented. Estimates suggested that individuals would be willing to sacrifice 30% instead of 10% of their income to avoid approximately 47 deaths per day during the first six months of 2021. For the same period, they would also accept 30% of the students’ population to become educationally impaired, instead of 10%, to avoid approximately 25 deaths; a strict lockdown, instead of mild life restrictions, to avoid approximately 24 deaths; and 45% of the population to be in risk of poverty, instead of 25%, to avoid approximately 101 deaths. Our paper shows that avoiding deaths was strongly preferred to the remaining societal impacts; and that being a female, as well as working on site, led individuals to be more averse to such health hazards. Furthermore, we show how a DCE can be used to assess the societal support to decision-making during times of crisis.en
dc.description.versionpublished
dc.format.extent1389886
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0278526
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 48419237
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 5a3d307f-6b4c-4d33-a4fb-ce3ec720e671
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85144141012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/160188
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.titleTrade-offs during the COVID-19 pandemicen
dc.title.subtitleA discrete choice experiment about policy preferences in Portugalen
dc.typejournal article
degois.publication.issue12
degois.publication.titlePLoS ONE
degois.publication.volume17
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccess

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