[VCEE Seminar] VCEE Seminar with Nicola Lacetera - Invitation, June 23

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Dear All,

You are invited to attend the VCEE seminar on Monday, June 23, from 11:30 to
13:00 hrs Vienna time. 

The seminar takes place in lecture hall 5 (ground floor) at
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1.

We will have one speaker: Nicola Lacetera (University of Bologna)

Webpage:   <https://sites.google.com/site/nicolacetera/>
https://sites.google.com/site/nicolacetera/



Here is more information about the talk:

Title: (Let Me) Save and Let (me) Die? Economic Factors and Support for
Medical Aid in Dying (with S. S. Sartor, F. H. Schneider and R. Weber)

 

Abstract:

The ethics and legalization of Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD)-the practice of
intentionally ending one's life with the assistance of a healthcare
professional-remain highly debated across countries and contexts. Although
medical and public health research has explored heterogeneity in support for
MAiD, economic perspectives on the issue are limited. We study how economic
and non-economic factors affect public support for MAiD. We conceptualize
that an observer's evaluation of MAiD depends on the patient's well-being,
societal impacts, and moral judgments. We report results from three survey
experiments with U.S. participants that vary these aspects of the decision
environment. We find that although deteriorations in health and financial
circumstances equally reduce perceived well-being, financial impairments
generate less support for MAiD than health impairments. We also show that
that participants are more supportive of MAiD when poor health outcomes are
medically unavoidable rather than due to financial constraints, reinforcing
the primacy of health over financial hardship in these judgments. Finally,
concerns about public healthcare expenditures do not affect support for
MAiD. Our findings indicate that, even in economically significant contexts,
moral and ethical considerations dominate financial trade-offs in public
attitudes toward MAiD.


If you are interested in meeting Nicola Lacetera (meeting slots of 30') you
can register via this link:

https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/ATYFB7qvRZxk3fAP

 

Best regards,

Sylvia

 

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