Faculty Publication: Dr. Guyse & Dr. Huynh

March 2021

**Faculty Publication in collaboration with Dr. Jeffery Guyse.

"Valuing Sequences of Lives Lost or Saved Over Time: Preference for Uniform Sequences," by Jeffery L. Guyse, L. Robin Keller (UC Irvine), and Candice Huynh received the 2020 Decision Analysis Special Recognition Award. This award is given annually for the paper most worthy of recognition published in the Decision Analysis journal for that year.

This paper investigated individuals’ preferences for different sequences of lives lost or saved over time, delving into whether the empirical anomalies associated with monetary outcomes were also present in the “lives” domain.

Having been published in the Decision Analysis journal in March 2020, as the global pandemic was beginning to take hold of the world, this paper subsequently offered insights of individual’s preferences for public policy regarding the distribution of lives saved or lost over time. This could aid public health officials and other policy makers in making decisions regarding both lockdown policy, as well as vaccine distribution strategy.

All three authors’ research streams are in decision making at the individual level. Dr. Guyse has been researching decisions regarding health, mortality, and monetary outcomes over time for the last 20 years. Dr. Huynh has been researching risk preferences in morality, monetary outcomes, and supply chain management for the past 10 years.