Preferences and Economic Decision-Making

偏好和经济决策

• 批准号: 7495203
• 负责人: Duncan Thomas
• 金额: $ 40.66万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7495203
• 关键词: Adult; Affect; Altruism; Asses; Attention; Attitude; Behavior; Behavioral; Characteristics; Child; Classification; Collection; Communities; Companions; Consumption; Data; Data Collection; Data Element; Decision Making; Demographic Survey; Dimensions; Economics; Family; Family member; Future; Heterogeneity; Home environment; Household; Indium; Individual; Interview; Investments; Laboratories; Life; Literature; Living Wills; Longitudinal Surveys; Measurement; Measures; Methods; Mexico; Modeling; Participant; Play; Population; Protocols documentation; Public Domains; Purpose; Randomized; Range; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Resource Allocation; Resources; Respondent; Risk; Role; Rural; Site; Source; Spouses; Surveys; Testing; Time; Trust; Uncertainty; Variant; Work; base; cost effectiveness; day; design; human capital; improved; information gathering; innovation; member; payment; preference; research study; response; social; theories; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although individual preferences and attitudes play a central role in many models of family decision-making, they have proven to be very difficult to measure in socio-economic surveys. As a step towards filling that gap, this project will design, field and evaluate an innovative set of measures of three important domains of preferences in conjunction with six waves of a specially designed longitudinal household survey. The field site is rural Mexico. For each respondent, we will measure inter-personal preferences towards family members, neighbors and strangers (from other villages), attitudes towards risk and inter-temporal preferences using three modes. First, drawing on well-established protocols in the behavioral experiments literature, respondents will complete decision-based tasks that carry cash payments in central "laboratories" in their own village. Second, these incentivized tasks will be adapted to a home setting and implemented in conjunction with the household survey. Third, interview questions that attempt to elicit information about these domains of preferences will be included in each wave of the survey. Detailed information about the lives of each respondent and their families will be recorded in the broad-purpose household survey. These alternative and possibly complementary measures of preferences will be carefully evaluated. In addition to comparing their reliability, stability and internal validity, the richness of the survey data will be full exploited to assess the external validity of each measure by relating it to characteristics and behaviors, including household resource allocation decisions. The preference measures will also be evaluated by exploiting random variation in the distribution of resources within households, induced by the study design. The project will produce uniquely rich public use data that provide unparalleled opportunities for better understanding the dynamics of individual and family decision-making. This research has the potential to suggest new directions for improving measures of preferences in household surveys.

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管个人偏好和态度在许多家庭决策模式中起着核心作用，但事实证明，在社会经济调查中，它们很难衡量。为了填补这一空白，该项目将设计，现场和评估三个重要偏好领域的创新度量，并结合六波专门设计的纵向家庭调查。现场是墨西哥农村地区。对于每个受访者，我们将使用三种模式来衡量对家庭成员，邻居和陌生人（来自其他村庄）（来自其他村庄）的人际偏好，对风险和时空偏好的态度。首先，借鉴了行为实验文献中公认的协议，受访者将完成基于决策的任务，这些任务在其自己村庄的中央“实验室”中携带现金支付。其次，这些激励任务将适应家庭环境，并与家庭调查一起实施。第三，每次调查浪潮将包括试图获取有关这些偏好领域的信息的访谈问题。有关每个受访者及其家人生活的详细信息将记录在广泛的家庭调查中。这些替代方案和可能的偏好措施将仔细评估。除了比较其可靠性，稳定性和内部有效性外，还将全面利用调查数据的丰富性来评估每种措施的外部有效性，通过将其与特征和行为（包括家庭资源分配决策）相关联。偏好措施还将通过利用研究设计引起的家庭内部资源分布的随机变化来评估。该项目将产生独特的公共使用数据，为更好地理解个人和家庭决策的动态提供无与伦比的机会。这项研究有可能提出新的方向，以改善家庭调查中的偏好度量。