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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Discrete Choice Experiment"”.
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Rural internship job preferences of final year medical students in South Africa: a discrete choice experiment
… a D-efficient design was generated with 15 choice sets, each with two rural hospital alternatives and no opt-out option. An online, unlabelled discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted, the results effects coded, and mixed logit models applied. The final sample size was 193 (86,16% of …
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Willingness to Pay for Safer Bathing Water in Poland: A Discrete Choice Experiment linked to Benefit-Cost Analysis
… the frequency of seawater quality monitoring. A discrete choice experiment with a tax payment vehicle was used to derive willingness to pay (WTP) for policy attributes, which was analysed using a mixed logit model in preference space to capture unobserved preference heterogeneity. We find that …
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The development and piloting of a discrete choice experiment to measure the support preferences of people with chronic respiratory diseases in Ireland
… through the development and piloting of a discrete choice experiment (DCE). Methods: Early work in the thesis identified and explored eight frameworks for SMS of chronic disease developed by national/state level health systems in different countries. Subsequently, a qualitative study was …
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Does changing the way a discrete choice experiment (DCE) is presented to respondents affect results? An investigation in the context of health using between-subject designs
Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are a popular stated preference technique used in health. A major challenge in health related DCEs is that they often involve terminology and concepts that may be unfamiliar to respondent. Therefore, it is important for DCEs to include explanations of the concepts …
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Targeting uptake of exercise-promoting structured patient education intervention: foundational research and process description of a discrete choice experiment to understand perceived intervention utility and design preferences for men with prostate cancer
… overall uptake and long-term sustainability. The discrete choice experiment offers a pragmatic consumer-oriented approach to exploring and understanding individual preferences and perceived utility when planning complex interventions, ensuring that even without real-life observational data, only …
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Estimating mode choice: A discrete choice analysis of a park and ride system for Florida road, Durban
… so, the demand for the service, in terms of choice probabilities, was forecast. Another interest in this study was to examine the influence of current travel behaviour patterns as well as socio demographic characteristics on the predicted demand for the service. A stated preference survey was …
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Non-market valuation of urban ecosystem services in Penang, Malaysia
… travel patterns. The third topic employs a discrete choice experiment to reveal trade-offs between green space characteristics and travel distance, emphasizing the high value placed on improved air quality. The fourth topic uses a Seemingly Unrelated Regression model to explore the impact of …
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Understanding perceptions of social-ecological systems and preferences for the future in protected area communities
… that were evaluated as part of a quantitative discrete choice experiment in a regional household survey. I found that tradeoffs were made among the relative importance of moose populations, acres of forest managed for fire, off-season tourism growth rate, and cost. I then tested the moderating …
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Essays on willingness and ability to pay for health insurance among informal sector workers in Sierra Leone
… policy makers. The Contingent Valuation and Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) are the most widely used methods. However, due to its increased popularity, the ability to calculate incremental benefit of each attribute used, and it proving to be more appealing, this work therefore used the DCE …
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An assessment of the utilisation of stokvels or rotating savings and credit associations to influence healthy eating in South Africa
… patterns. Lastly, the study incorporated a discrete choice experiment (DCE), engaging 200 stokvel members. This quantitative method assessed the factors impacting members' preferences for healthy foods, analyzing their choices against various attributes related to food procurement and …
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Siting Community Wind Farms: An Investigation of NIMBY
… (NIMBY) phenomenon. In this study we employ a discrete choice experiment to investigate public preferences for different characteristics of a local wind farm. We investigate NIMBY by first controlling for characteristics that might cause local opposition, such as seeing or hearing a wind farm …
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Contextualizing Renewable Energy Adoption: An Examination of the Role of Community Choice Aggregation
… procurement options in the presence of Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), a more prevalent and accessible alternative. This dissertation makes four pivotal contributions, offering insights into the importance of contextual factors when examining renewable energy adoption. The first contribution …
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Nudging Retail Investors towards Sustainable and Responsible Mutual Funds: A Study of Financial Advisors and Retail Investors in Hong Kong
… without abridging their freedom of choice. The prevalence of nudge theory prompted some researchers to explore the application to SRI and SRMF, and some policies and practices are suggested. But nudge practices in the financial markets can be controversial, and we need a sound basis …
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Algorithms for bundling and pricing trucking services: Deterministic and stochastic approaches
… the shipper willingness to pay using data from a discrete choice experiment. Chapter 3 proposes an algorithm for demand clustering in freight logistics networks using historical data from TL carriers. Chapter 4 develops an algorithmic approach for pricing and demand segmentation of bundles in TL …
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Describing local community acceptance with discrete choice theory for enhanced community engagement
… determinants of local community acceptance using discrete choice theory. Specifically, the goals were to: (1) Identify, classify, and verify the important project characteristics and key demographic factors which affect local community acceptance of a mining project; (2) Account for the large …
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Investigating the Impact of Health and Environmental Framing on Consumer Preference for Sustainable Food Packaging: A Choice Experiment
… the case of strawberry packaging and deploys a discrete choice experiment to answer the question: What are Canadian consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for sustainable alternatives to plastic food packaging, and how do health and environmental information treatments impact their WTP? This study …
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Essays on the economics of bee-friendly beef
… pastures through conservation programs. A discrete choice experiment revealed that producers require cost-share payments to convert pastureland into NWSG-WF systems. For a 10% conversion, producers would accept an average of $134.58 per acre (51% of establishment costs), while increasing …
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Exploration of care continuity during the hospital discharge process
… attitudes towards the discharge process. A pilot Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) was developed and undertaken with GPs to determine their preferences with respect to the format, quality and timing of discharge summaries. Results A large proportion of discharge summaries were found to be …
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Valuing maternity care: a comparison of stated preference methods with an application to cost-benefit analysis
… to inform two stated preference techniques: a discrete choice experiment (DCE) and contingent valuation method (CVM). These are employed to identify women’s strengths of preferences for different features of care (DCE) and estimate women’s willingness to pay for maternity care (CVM), which is …
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Demand for certified aflatoxin-free grains
… grains, we ask them to participate in a discrete choice experiment. We then measure the consumers’ and intermediaries’ demand for different levels of aflatoxin in rice, wheat and maize, along with preferences for the type of food quality certification agencies. To test for hypothetical …
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