Preferences and Economic Decision-Making

描述（由申请人提供）：虽然个人偏好和态度在许多家庭决策模式中发挥着核心作用，但事实证明，在社会经济调查中很难衡量这些偏好和态度。作为填补这一差距的一个步骤，该项目将结合六波特别设计的纵向住户调查，设计、实施和评价三个重要偏好领域的一套创新措施。现场是墨西哥农村。对于每个受访者，我们将使用三种模式测量对家庭成员，邻居和陌生人（来自其他村庄）的人际偏好，对风险的态度和跨时间偏好。首先，利用行为实验文献中完善的协议，受访者将在自己村庄的中央“实验室”完成基于决策的任务，这些任务带有现金支付。第二，这些激励任务将适合家庭环境，并与家庭调查一起实施。第三，每一轮调查都将包括试图了解这些偏好领域信息的访谈问题。关于每个答卷人及其家庭生活的详细资料将记录在广泛目的的住户调查中。这些备选的和可能的补充性优惠措施将得到认真评价。除了比较其可靠性、稳定性和内部有效性外，还将充分利用调查数据的丰富性，通过将其与特征和行为，包括家庭资源分配决定联系起来，评估每项措施的外部有效性。还将通过利用研究设计引起的家庭内部资源分配的随机变化来评估偏好措施。该项目将产生独特丰富的公共使用数据，为更好地了解个人和家庭决策的动态提供前所未有的机会。这项研究有可能为改进住户调查中的偏好措施提出新的方向。

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.