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The Preference Survey Module : A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

Falk, Armin - 2016

This paper presents an experimentally validated survey module to measure six key economic preferences – risk aversion, discounting, trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity – in a reliable, parsimonious and cost-effective way. The survey instruments included in the module were the...

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The Preference Survey Module : New Evidence on Social Preferences from Tehran

Kosfeld, Michael; Sharafi, Zahra - 2022

We provide new evidence on the extent that survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social preferences − trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity − predict behavior in corresponding experimental games outside the original...

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Accounting for Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits

Dohmen, Thomas; Jagelka, Tomáš - 2023

measurement error. This paper presents the first attempt at measuring both revealed and self-reported reliability of individuals …' answers on self-reports of latent characteristics. We show that measurement error on self-reports relevant to economists is … effort and self-knowledge in generating measurement error and propose a simple model which rationalizes our findings …

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Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences : Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya

Bauer, Michal - 2019

Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university students (Becker et al. 2016) and were implemented...

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'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes : Subjective Versus Revealed Preferences

Akay, Alpaslan - 2017

Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To operationalize this approach, preference heterogeneity can be inferred from the observation of individual choices (revealed...

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Dimensions of Quality of Life in Germany : Measured by Plain Text Responses in a Representative Survey (SOEP)

Wagner, Gert G. - 2017

This paper demonstrates how quality of life can be measured by plain text in a representative survey, the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Furthermore, the paper shows that problems that are difficult to monitor, especially problems like the state of the European Union, long-term...

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Measurement Error in Earnings Data : Replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek's Mixture Model Approach to Combining Survey and Register Data

Jenkins, Stephen; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2021

Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek (MRW, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2012) develop methods for prediction of a single earnings figure per worker from mixture factor models fitted using earnings data from multiple linked data sources. MRW apply their method using parameter estimates...

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Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs : Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments

Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2019

increased online-search activity. Consistently, an experiment that just encourages search-engine usage produces very similar … results. Another experiment provides no evidence of experimenter-demand effects. Overall, results suggest that incentive …

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Social Media as a Recruitment and Data Collection Tool : Experimental Evidence on the Relative Effectiveness of Web Surveys and Chatbots

Beam, Emily - 2022

use in global research. I conduct a randomized experiment in the Philippines to test the effectiveness of web-form and …

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Luck or Rights? An Experiment on Preferences for Redistribution Following Inheritance of Opportunity

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, … - 2022

We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By randomly matched two strangers in a lab setting, we test whether the sources of opportunity handed down from the 'testator' subjects determines later redistributive decisions among...

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