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Are choice experiments reliable? Evidence from the lab

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This study investigates whether a popular stated preference method, the choice experiment (CE), reliably measures individuals’ values for a good. We address this question using an induced value experiment. Our results indicate that CEs fail to elicit payoff maximizing choices. We find little evidence that increasing the salience of the choices or adding monetary incentives increase the proportion of payoff maximizing choices. This questions the increasing use of CE to value non-market goods for policy making.

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hal-01463113 , version 1 (09-02-2017)

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Stéphane Luchini, Verity Watson. Are choice experiments reliable? Evidence from the lab. Economics Letters, 2014, 124 (1), pp.9--13. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2014.04.005⟩. ⟨hal-01463113⟩
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