Benefits beyond Health in the Willingness to Pay for a Quality-Adjusted Life-Year

This study investigates whether people consider elements beyond health when valuing Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs) monetarily and the influence of inclusion on this value. A Willingness to Pay (WTP) experiment was administered among the general public in which people were asked to assign monetary values to QALYs. Our results show that (stated) UoC increases with quality of life but that instructing people to consider UoC does not impact their monetary valuation of the QALY. Furthermore, many respondents consider elements beyond health when valuing QALYs but the impact on the monetary value of a QALY is limited.This dataset includes (1) the documents related to the construction of the (sub-versions of the) questionnaire, (2) the raw data from the questionnaire collected by and received from the sampling agency, and (3) the data after preparation for analysis and the code to analyze the data.