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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"choice experiment"”.
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Residential Preference at Transit-oriented Development: A Visual Choice Experiment
… environments. This study employed a visual choice experiment, which combines the benefits of visual preference surveys and discrete choice experiments, to elicit residential preference for TODs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, before the opening of its citywide public transportation system. Using a …
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Integrating virtual world with choice experiment method: case of residential stormwater management measures
… integrates the concept of social presence to choice experiment method by enhancing the level of social presence while presenting attributes information to participants. I employed a virtual world platform and designed two experiments that are differentiated in terms of the level of social …
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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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Ecological and Aesthetic Factors' Preferences of Urban Riparian Corridor in Arid Regions: A Visual Choice Experiment
… in landscape scenes. This study uses a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) to elicit the preferences of current or pretendant residents of Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia for multiple landscape scenes. The method combines ecological landscape characteristics adopted from the QBR index that are found …
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Willingness to Pay for Safer Bathing Water in Poland: A Discrete Choice Experiment linked to Benefit-Cost Analysis
… 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 households …
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Investigating the Impact of Health and Environmental Framing on Consumer Preference for Sustainable Food Packaging: A Choice Experiment
… 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 finds …
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A Choice Experiment Study of Household Investor Preferences for Renewable Energy Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Ghana
… to bridge the gap.<br/><br/>Using a discrete choice survey administered to Ghanaian households considered at least middle class in terms of income, this thesis sought to investigate household investor willingness to pay for the attributes associated with renewable energy investments and assess …
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Demand for Water Quality: Empirical Evidence from a Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, and Choice Experiment Survey about the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal
… water quality in the Bagmati River using choice experiment data collected from in-person interviews of 1200 households in Kathmandu, Nepal. Four attributes of river health and cost under different management scenarios are used to estimate willingness-to-pay for the improvements in river …
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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
… 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 conducted …
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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
… 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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Consumer's preferences for goat meat in the United States : an application of choice-based conjoint analysis
… preferences for goat meat; therefore, a choice experiment was used to assess consumer preferences for goat meat and/or live goats. A national online survey was conducted from April 27, 2012 to May 4, 2012. Respondents were asked to complete either the goat meat choice experiment, live …
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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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Public Perception of Public Transportation and its Built Environment in the New Haven - Springfield Corridor
… and land use. This paper presents a choice experiment which places respondents into personalized hypothetical scenarios and examines their preferences for new transit service and the environment in which it operates. The choice experiment survey instrument investigates public response …
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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 bias in the …
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Horticultural Producers' Willingness to Adopt Water Recycling Technology in the Mid-Atlantic Region
… management practices. The survey incorporated a choice experiment quantifying willingness to adopt water recycling given hypothetical disease outbreak, water shortage probabilities, and percentage cost increases via a conditional logit model. Two hundred and sixty respondents provide valuable …
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Essays on the economics of bee-friendly beef
… 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 conversions …
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Consumer Choice of Hotel Experiences: The Effects of Cognitive, Affective, and Sensory Attributes
Understanding the choice behavior of customers is crucial for effective service management and marketing in the hospitality industry. The first purpose of this dissertation is to examine the differential effects that cognitive, affective, and sensory attributes have on consumer hotel choice. The …
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Farmer Preferences for Attributes of Conservation Agriculture in Eastern Uganda
… Uganda place on some these benefits. Data from a choice experiment study are analyzed with a mixed logit model to determine farmers' willingness to pay for increases in maize yield, reductions in erosion, and reductions in land preparation labor requirements. It finds that farmers have a …
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