全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP13830 Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences: Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP13830
	DP13830 Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences: Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya
	Michal Bauer; Julie Chytilová; Edward Miguel
发表日期	2019-06-28
出版年	2019
语种	英语
摘要	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 among representative samples across the globe (Falk et al. 2018). This paper presents results of an experimental validation conducted among low-income individuals in Nairobi, Kenya. We find that quantitative survey measures -- hypothetical versions of experimental tasks -- of time preference, attitude to risk and altruism are good predictors of choices in incentivized experiments, suggesting these measures are broadly experimentally valid. At the same time, we find that qualitative questions -- self-assessments -- do not correlate with the experimental measures of preferences in the Kenyan sample. Thus, caution is needed before treating self-assessments as proxies of preferences in new contexts.
主题	Development Economics ; Labour Economics
关键词	Preference measurement Experiment Survey Validation
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp13830
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542705
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Michal Bauer,Julie Chytilová,Edward Miguel. DP13830 Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences: Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya. 2019.