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Using survey questions to measure preferences: lessons from an experimental validation in Kenya
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SYSNO ASEP 0532770 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Using survey questions to measure preferences: lessons from an experimental validation in Kenya Author(s) Bauer, Michal (NHU-N) RID
Chytilová, Julie (NHU-N)
Miguel, E. (US)Article number 103493 Source Title European Economic Review. - : Elsevier - ISSN 0014-2921
Roč. 127, August (2020)Number of pages 8 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country NL - Netherlands Keywords preference measurement ; experiment ; survey Subject RIV AH - Economics OECD category Applied Economics, Econometrics R&D Projects GA17-13869S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) GA20-11091S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Method of publishing Limited access Institutional support NHU-N - RVO:67985998 UT WOS 000552030900027 EID SCOPUS 85086427947 DOI 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103493 Annotation 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. Workplace Economics Institute Contact Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122 Year of Publishing 2021 Electronic address https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103493
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