Discrete Choice with Presentation Effects

Arbeitspapier

Experimenters have to make theoretically irrelevant decisions concerning user interfaces and ordering or labeling of options. Such presentation decisions affect behavior and cause results to appear contradictory across experiments, obstructing utility estimation and policy recommendations. The present paper derives a model of choice allowing analysts to control for both presentation effects and stochastic errors in econometric analyses. I test the model in a comprehensive re-analysis of dictator game experiments. Controlling for presentation effects, preference estimates are consistent across experiments and predictive out-of-sample, highlighting the fundamental role of presentation for choice, and this notwithstanding the possibility of reliable estimation and prediction.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 35

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General ; Design of Experiments: General
• Thema: discrete choice ; presentation effects ; utility estimation ; counterfactual predictions ; laboratory experiment

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Breitmoser, Yves
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
• (wo): München und Berlin
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/185705
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ