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Policies on dying: Assisted suicide in Germany

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  • Carmen Sainz Villalba

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This paper studies the effect on the support of legalization of assisted suicide by exposing German individuals to real-life cases of assisted suicide. We find that the support of legalizing assisted suicide does not change substantially, only 21% of our sample changes opinion. However, it seems that the support for those that strongly favour the policy decreases when presented with cases, as they seem less confident in their opinion and also makes the respondents that oppose less likely to change to strongly oppose. We also find that the change in opinion by the exposure to cases is mediated by the prior belief that respondents have. We also explore the reasons why the change in support is so low. We find that the respondents that are more likely to change support are the ones that state a lower credibility on the information provided.

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  • Carmen Sainz Villalba, 2024. "Policies on dying: Assisted suicide in Germany," Working Papers tax-mpg-rps-2024-11, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance.
    • Handle: RePEc:mpi:wpaper:tax-mpg-rps-2024-11
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    JEL classification:

    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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