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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Effects of alternative elicitation formats in discrete choice experiments
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| Autores: |
Scheufele, Gabriela
Bennett, Jeffrey W.
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| Data: |
2010-03-11
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| Ano: |
2010
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| Palavras-chave: |
Discrete choice experiments
Split sample approach
Elicitation format
Incentive compatibility
Strategic behavior
Learning effects
Panel mixed logit models
Environmental Economics and Policy
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| Resumo: |
An elicitation format prevalently applied in DCE is to offer each respondent a sequence of choice tasks containing more than two choice options. However, empirical evidence indicates that repeated choice tasks influence choice behavior through institutional learning, fatigue, value learning, and strategic response. The study reported in this paper employs a split sample approach based on field surveys using a single binary elicitation format with a majority vote implementation as the baseline to expand the research on effects of sequential binary DCE formats. We provide evidence for effects caused by institutional learning and either strategic behavior or value learning after respondents answered repeated choice questions. However, we did not find any indications for strategic behavior caused by awareness of having multiple choices. The choice between a sequential and a single elicitation format may thus imply a trade-off between decreased choice accuracy and potentially increased strategic behavior due to an incentive incompatible mechanism. Further research is needed to explore strategic behavior induced by incentive incompatible elicitation formats using alternative approaches that are not compromised by a confounded baseline, that facilitate the differentiation between value learning and strategic behavior, and that allow the use of less restrictive model specifications. Such research should also investigate the effects of varying incentives induced by the order in which choice questions are presented to respondents.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/59158
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| Relação: |
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society>2010 Conference (54th), February 10-12, 2010, Adelaide, Australia
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| Formato: |
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