Human Enhancement Technologies: A Survey Experiment on Private Demand and Governance Preferences.
This study was reviewed and approved by the “Comitato Etico Per Le Attività Non Biomediche” of the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (PG/2024/0124289) and the Johns Hopkins University Homewood IRB (HIRB00019474). It was pre-registered in the American Economic Association’s RCT Registry (AEARCTR-0016972). We would like to thank Alberto Bisin, Ruth Faden, Jeffrey Kahn, Juliana Rebora, and seminar participants at the University of Lugano, the University of North South Wales, the University of Palermo, the Petralia Workshop, the University of Technology Sydney, the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Johns Hopkins Technology and Society Initiative, the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative, and the CEPR Workshop on Frontiers in Measurement and Survey Methods for helpful comments and suggestions. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN PNRR Project No. P2022XJW4T). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
