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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Choice Experiments"”.
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Subjective Probabilities in Choice Experiments' Design: Three Essays
… to what extent this adjustment affects their choices. In the first essay, by using an artefactual field experiment, I examine the potential correlation between incentive compatibility and validity of subjective probabilities elicited via the Exchangeability Method, an innovative elicitation …
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Using choice experiments to value preferences over stormwater management
U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 45518 on 2015-08-22T10:00:22Z.
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Methods for Analyzing Attribute-Level Best-Worst Discrete Choice Experiments
<p>Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) have applications in many areas such as social sciences, economics, transportation research, health systems, and clinical decisions to mention a few. Usually discrete choice models (DCMs) focus on predicting the product choice; however, these models do not …
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Using massive online choice experiments to measure changes in well-being
… massively scalable online Single Binary Discrete Choice experiments to measure changes in consumer surplus for digital goods. Through these experiments we seek to measure consumers' willingness to accept compensation for losing access to various digital goods and thereby estimate the changes in …
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Three essays on stated choice experiments for nonmarket valuation of landslide protection
… landslide risk reduction by applying Discrete Choice Modelling methodology. To address the current needs of local decision-makers, the investigation of the determinants of preference heterogeneity is the central theme of the research. The study is based on a panel choice dataset created from a …
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Understanding and supporting pricing decisions using multicriteria decision analysis: an application to antique silver in South Africa
… and linear interpolation) and with discrete choice experiments. The applicability and advantages of each method is discussed. Additionally, an open source R package to implement the design of discrete choice experiments is created. The multi-attribute models provide key insights into decision …
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A unique perspective on the demand for livestock product attributes
… impacts of the foods they purchase. Both choice experiments and best-worst scaling (BWS) methodology have been used to elicit consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for food attributes and the relative importance of food attributes to consumers. The dissertation consists of four essays. Chapter …
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How should we measure the digital economy?
… economic well-being using massive online choice experiments. It finds that digital goods generate a large amount of consumer surplus that is currently not captured in GDP. For example, the median Facebook user needed a compensation of around $48 to give it up for a month. Building up on …
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Consumer inattention, uncertainty, and marketing strategy
… to estimate the demand for new products using choice experiments. The premise is that consumers are uncertain about their valuation of a new product and need to spend costly effort to learn their valuation. The effort consumers spend is affected by the probability of their choice being …
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Eterogeneità delle preferenze in ambito energetico-ambientale. Modelli di scelta e Posterior Analysis
… towards energy efficient technologies from Choice Experiments where respondents act as consumers and as citizens. Posterior Analysis with correlations and Structural Equations Model allow to test the coherence of individual choices and the validity of choice theories like the …
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Estimation of cumulative prospect theory-based passenger behavioral models for dynamic pricing & transactive control of shared mobility on demand
… survey was designed to estimate both the mode-choice and CPT models. The mode choice section consisted of a series of discrete choice experiments created via factorial design, while the CPT section involved carefully constructed lottery questions and travel choice scenarios to elicit risk …
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Active and Passive Settling By Marine Benthic Nematodes
… "attractive" sediment. Preliminary still water choice experiments confirmed the attractive and unattractive properties of these sediment treatments with each taxon. Recolonization trays placed in the field confirmed that each taxon did disperse in the water column. One taxon (Theristus sp?) …
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Essays on choice modeling
… interest in modeling preference heterogeneity in Choice Experiments (CE) data has promoted the use of choice models within the family of Logit Mixture models. However, researchers have scarce guidance on how to select the appropriate model. A Monte Carlo study is set up to analyze the performance …
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Relative performance transparency : effects on sustainable purchase and consumption behavior
… domain. In a series of online consumer choice experiments, we find that within the product purchase domain, transparency into the company's current levels of sustainability performance has a more powerful effect on influencing consumer purchase behavior than transparency into the …
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Optimal Reduced Size Choice Sets with Overlapping Attributes
Discrete choice experiments are used when choice alternatives can be described in terms of attributes. The objective is to infer the value that respondents attach to attribute levels. Respondents are presented sets of profiles based on attributes specified at certain levels and asked to select the …
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Evaluating in situ Grazing Patterns of Lytechinus variegatus and their Effects on Seagrass Beds of Thalassia testudinum
… urchins in that part of the bed. Urchin movement experiments and dispersion patterns indicate that urchins move more where seagrass cover is low. Field surveys and lab choice experiments indicate that urchins tend to be detrital consumers of seagrass blades rather than herbivores on live seagrass …
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Willingness to Pay for Alternative Programs to Improve Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay
… good? The results from an attribute based choice experiment survey indicate that individuals value process and that they have a higher value for water quality improvement processes that include positive externalities such as increasing oyster populations and planting acres of tall grasses. …
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Unlocking energy-water nexus and incentivizing energy-saving behavior in Indian agriculture - Discrete choice approach
… solutions collected with the help of discrete choice experiments involving groundbreaking field work. The work presented in this thesis is probably one of the first of its kind, to the best of the author’s knowledge. Despite mounting evidence that electricity subsidies to agriculture are …
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Investigations of delayed plumage maturation in the orchard oriole
… non-definitive plumage. I used model/playback experiments to test predictions of alternative breeding season signaling hypotheses for DPM. I found that, contrary to the results of several previous studies, subadult plumage in the orchard oriole does not reduce intra-sexual aggression directed …
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Health and Environmental Benefits of Reduced Pesticide Use in Uganda: An Experimental Economics Analysis
… involved 132 urban respondents making repeated choices from a set of scenarios described by attributes of water quality, an environmental good. Water quality is represented by profiles of water safety levels at varying costs. Analysis using the conditional (fixed effects) logit showed that urban …
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