Responsibility-Sensitive Welfare Weights for Health

This data and code accompanies the paper Robson, O'Donnell and Van Ourti (2025), "Responsibility-Sensitive Welfare Weights for Health". In the paper, we design and run an online experiment, with a sample of the UK adult population, to estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequality- and inequity-sensitive policy evaluation. Here, we provide data and code to enable replication of the experiment and analysis. The Experiment folder contains an R-Shiny app to run our experiment. The R folder contains experimental data, estimated preference parameters, and analytical code to reproduce our analysis and estimate preference parameters. The Stata folder contains experimental data and analytical code to reproduce our analysis. The Welfare Weights folder contains an RData file, which includes the estimated preference parameters, and an R script file, which includes a function that allows others to use our estimated preference parameters to estimate Social Marginal Welfare Weights, which can be used in health policy evaluation. Please contact us if you have any questions.