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

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Author	Bauer, Michal Chytilová, Julie Miguel, Edward
Copyright Year	2020
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal 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.
Related Links	https://escholarship.org/content/qt52g9k54w/qt52g9k54w.pdf?t=pxlzti https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3531690
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.3531690
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2020-02-04
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Preference Measurement
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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