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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"preference heterogeneity"”.
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Conditional, Structural and Unobserved Heterogeneity: three essays on preference heterogeneity in the design of financial incentives to increase weight loss program reach
… consists of three essays on forms of preference heterogeneity in discrete choice models. The first essay uses a model of heterogeneity conditional on observed individual-specific characteristics to tailor financial incentives to enhance weight loss program participation among target …
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Cross-cultural differences in environmental valuation: a choice modelling application to water resources in the Waikato
… of the strengths of cross-cultural preferences; yet, few empirical studies have attempted to quantify these differences. This application of stated preference non-market environmental valuation investigated whether there is a significant difference between Māori and non-Māori in a …
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Essays on Asset Pricing
… the interaction between limited enforcement and preference heterogeneity affects individual consumption, risk sharing and asset prices. In Chapter One “Capital heterogeneity, time-to-build, and return predictability”, I study how two major types of business investment, equipment and structures, …
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Three essays on stated choice experiments for nonmarket valuation of landslide protection
… In particular, this research examines people’s preferences and their willingness-to-pay for landslide mitigation programmes. The primary aim is to assess how the residents of and visitors to a mountain valley in the Alps value and trade off the multiple attributes of protection programmes for …
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Estimating Desirable Cattle Traits Using Latent Class and Mixed Logit Models: A Choice Modeling Application to the U.S. Grass-Fed Beef Industry
This study examines the preferences for cattle traits using mixed logit and latent class models. Choice experiment data from a 2013 mail survey of 1,052 U.S. grass-fed beef producers were used. The findings indicate that grass-fed beef producers generally preferred lower-priced, heavy animals that …
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Willingness to Pay for Safer Bathing Water in Poland: A Discrete Choice Experiment linked to Benefit-Cost Analysis
… interventions in Poland by eliciting people's preferences for reducing infection risk and increasing 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 …
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Essays on choice modeling
The increased 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 …
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Understanding consumers' ornamental plant preferences for disease-free and water conservation labels
… Our research also investigated consumers' preferences for multiple third party certifying authorities and whether preferences for the labels varied among consumers. The results showed ornamental plant consumers did not reveal a preference for a particular certifying authority. The results …
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Three Essays on Choice -Based Estimations of the Economic Benefits of Contaminated Site Cleanup
… on the role of both observed and unobserved heterogeneity and uses the random parameters logit model. The recognition of parameter randomness and the inclusion of attitudes and perception data improve the result from the standard conditional logit model. The welfare measures are found to be …
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Three papers on the behavior modeling of the shrimp fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico
… dependence), and the fishermen’s difference in preferences (preference heterogeneity). The results show that past experience does affect current decision, but the influence dies out fast. In addition, fishers are different in their preference in many aspects. Also, it seems that fishermen’s risk …
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Real-time Personalized Tolling with Long-term Objectives
… to two competing latent behavioral factors: preference heterogeneity, and state dependence—not switching between options causally yields positive utility. Their econometric quantifications have crucial implications on pricing, but are challenging due to endogeneity known as the initial …
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Residential Preference at Transit-oriented Development: A Visual Choice Experiment
Insufficient knowledge of residential preferences represents a major obstacle to achieving residential satisfaction and quality of life. This obstacle is even greater in the case of transit-oriented developments (TODs), as their success depends, in part, on the degree to which people's preferences …
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Factors Affecting Consumers Preferences for Specialty Eggs in Canada
… qualities. Thus, marketing information about heterogeneity in consumer preferences and characteristics when purchasing eggs is needed for developing effective marketing plans and serving consumers’ needs. In order to address this issue, a choice experiment approach is adopted to elicit …
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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
… can play is being realised and understanding the preferences of such household investors is crucial to raising the necessary investments 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 …
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Testing Criterion Validity of Benefit Transfer Using Simulated Data
… observable characteristics, population preferences, measurement error in variables, and a case of preference heterogeneity at the study site and fixed preferences at the policy site. These cases of difference were considered one at time and their impact on quality of transfer is …
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Addressing water scarcity in urban Tanzania: household preferences, behavioural interventions, and technological adoption
… through three studies: (i) households' preferences and willingness to pay for reliable water supply, (ii) the impact of information campaigns on water-saving behaviours, and (iii) the adoption of water-saving technologies. Each study is presented in a separate chapter. The first study …
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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
… Ireland, there is a need to ensure that patient preferences are considered. Aim: to examine the SMS preferences of people with asthma and/or COPD in Ireland through the development and piloting of a discrete choice experiment (DCE). Methods: Early work in the thesis identified and explored eight …
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Empirical Studies of Discrete Choice Models in Health, Fertility, and Voting
… that people are observed to make, i.e., revealed preference (RP) information. From these data we can quantify the influence of particular variables in the real choice context; for example, how important is price in the decision to travel by train? There are, however, potential problems with these …
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Assessing growth preferences on the rural-urban fringe using a discrete choice model and spatial analysis methods
… experiencing change and diversification, yet the preferences of local residents for how these landscapes should develop is largely overlooked. My thesis contributes to a growing body of research that explores residents’ preferences for landscape change through two specific aims: (1) understand how …
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Demand for certified aflatoxin-free grains
… aflatoxin in rice, wheat and maize, along with preferences for the type of food quality certification agencies. To test for hypothetical bias in the stated choice experiment and ensure incentive compatibility in the elicitation mechanism, we also conduct a real choice experiment using …
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