Context effects and the temporal stability of stated preferences

Liebe, Ulf; Hundeshagen, Cordula; Beyer, Heiko; Cramon‐Taubadel, Stephan von

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“…Pouta (2004) showed in a contingent valuation study that the inclusion of relevant belief and attitudinal questions prior to the valuation question increases the likelihood that an environmentally friendly alternative is chosen and increases the respondents' WTP for environment forest regeneration practices in Finland. Liebe et al (2016) find positive evidence for a directional context effect in a choice experiment study on ethical consumption. Therefore, when constructing a questionnaire it is important to be aware of this and consider possible implications of the fact that stated preferences and corresponding WTP estimates are likely to be affected by whether relevant attitudes are surveyed before or after the choice tasks in the experiment.…”

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“…On the other hand, the literature on context effects discussed above (e.g. Liebe et al 2016) often suggests asking such questions after the choice tasks instead because answering questions which are relevant for the choice task might activate socially desirable response behaviour or direct attention to specific choice attributes, which is probably unintended by the researcher. Therefore, researchers should consider the possibility of unintended context effects which can also apply to so-called warm-up questions or instructional choice sets before the actual choice tasks.…”

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Developing the Questionnaire

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This chapter outlines the essential topics for developing and testing a questionnaire for a discrete choice experiment survey. It addresses issues such as the description of the environmental good, pretesting of the survey, incentive compatibility, consequentiality or mitigation of hypothetical bias. For the latter, cheap talk scripts, opt-out reminders or an oath script are discussed. Moreover, the use of instructional choice sets, the identification of protest responses and strategic bidders are considered. Finally, issues related to the payment vehicle and the cost vector design are the subject of this section.

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“…When designing a choice experiment the objective is to create a choice task that resembles the real decision context as good as possible. In sociology applications of this method have been limited until now (exceptions are Buskens and Weesie, 2000;Liebe et al, 2016;Beyer and Liebe, 2015). The design of a choice experiment is comparable to that of a factorial survey, a method more often used in sociological studies (see Wallander, 2009;Graeff et al, 2014).…”

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“…Although this method is widely used in marketing and (transport) economics (see e.g. Louviere and Hensher, 1982) in sociology it is rather new (see also Liebe et al, 2016;Beyer and Liebe, 2015). To our knowledge there are only a few examples of researchers that took on this challenge (Buskens and Weesie, 2000;Kinghorn and Willis, 2008).…”

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To Join or Not to Join? The Impact of Social Interactions on Local Participation Decisions

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Leeuwen

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2019

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This paper investigates how social interactions impact the decision to participate in one's local environment. Existing work often reports correlations between social interactions and local participation, but it is unclear what the causal direction of this relationship is. A key contribution of this paper is that we are able to estimate the causal effect of social interactions on the decision to participate by systematically varying social attributes in a choice experiment. Based on a largescale survey in one Dutch municipality we analyze 3894 choice observations of 435 respondents. Our sample includes respondents who currently participate and respondents who do not. We find that at the recruitment stage being asked by a friend or acquaintance significantly increases the chances to volunteer. We also find significant homophily effects in terms of age as well as for the characteristics of the group already participating. Financial incentives have significant negative impacts on the decision to participate.

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“…While factorial surveys have been widely used in sociological research since decades (see Wallander 2009 for an overview), other multifactorial survey designs such as stated choice and conjoint experiments are still novel for most sociologists (but see Auspurg and Hinz 2014, 2015; Beyer and Liebe 2015; Liebe et al 2016). In stated choice experiments (SCEs), respondents are asked to choose from an array of behavioral alternatives, which vary in a number of attributes, the alternative they favor most.…”

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Uncovering the Nexus Between Attitudes, Preferences, and Behavior in Sociological Applications of Stated Choice Experiments

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Mariel

Beyer

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Sociological Methods & Research

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Multifactorial survey experiments such as stated choice experiments are used more and more frequently in social science research. In this article, based on an experimental study on ethical and political consumption, we explore the potential of hybrid choice models to explicitly model latent psychological factors such as attitudes, overcoming a possible endogeneity bias and misrepresentation of causality. To this end, we employ a hybrid latent class choice model (HLCCM) in which the latent class structure allocates individuals to classes according to underlying latent attitudes that also influence the answers to attitudinal questions. This allows, in line with sociological action theories, a theory-guided testing of preference segmentation and modification caused by attitudes. We compare the complex HLCCM with less complex models that do not take the latent variable nature of attitudes into account and discuss in which cases less complex models might be more appropriate. However, the HLCCM always has the advantage of providing structure for theory testing and is therefore a useful tool to uncover preference heterogeneity, preference modification, and decision-making processes in sociological and other social science research.

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Context effects and the temporal stability of stated preferences

Cited by 21 publications

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Developing the Questionnaire

Developing the Questionnaire

To Join or Not to Join? The Impact of Social Interactions on Local Participation Decisions

Uncovering the Nexus Between Attitudes, Preferences, and Behavior in Sociological Applications of Stated Choice Experiments

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