Designing Information Provision Experiments

Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes

doi:10.1257/jel.20211658

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“…We see the potential to include personality traits in behavioral economic experiments, for instance, checking whether custom-tailoring decision settings around farmers' personalities can be effective. This seems especially promising against the background of the increasing interest of economists in information provision experiments (Haaland et al, 2023). Thirdly, there is some potential to improve the data quality, when focusing on farmers' Big Five.…”

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(Why) Do farmers’ Big Five personality traits matter? – A systematic literature review

Lehberger¹,

Grüner²

2023

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Agricultural economists are increasingly incorporating insights from psychology into their research to better understand farmers’ behavior. The Big Five model of personality is frequently used in psychological research. This paper aims at answering how and when researchers use the Big Five personality traits when focusing on farmers (research questions, measurement of personality traits). In addition, we analyze to what extent the Big Five personality traits contribute to explaining farmers’ behaviors and outcomes. To answer these research questions, we carry out systematic literature research guided by the PRISMA approach. We searched three databases (Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed) at the end of February 2022 and identified n = 36 eligible studies. We included studies, which were written in English, which focused on farmers, including primary data and measurements of the Big Five personality traits. This is the first systematic and comprehensive review of the role of the Big Five personality traits in farmers’ behavior. Our review shows an increase in interest in the farmers’ Big Five personality traits in the past years, most often incorporated in research conducted in Europe. By carrying out the main steps of content analysis, we develop a taxonomy, categorizing the research aims of the reviewed studies. We identify three main categories: well-being (human and animal), business (in a broad sense and in a narrow sense), and methodological aims. Overall, our review suggests that some personality traits are more important for understanding farmers’ behaviors and outcomes than others, depending on the context. Indeed, we were able to identify some patterns. For instance, our review shows that neuroticism is most often negatively related to measures of human well-being, or business development, whereas agreeableness supports non-technical skills and education. Openness and extraversion seem to be strong predictors of pro-environmental behavior, whereas conscientiousness tends to increase business performance. To assess the possible risk of bias in the reviewed studies, we included a quality discussion. We further discuss the limitations of our review and identify avenues for future research. To increase the review’s credibility, we pre-registered our procedure (INPLASY202230138, DOI: 10.37766/inplasy2022.3.0138).

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(Why) Do farmers’ Big Five personality traits matter? – A systematic literature review

Lehberger¹,

Grüner²

2023

Preprint

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“…More broadly, these causal estimates help clarify how cultural or partisan gaps in attitudes, behavior, and policy preferences may emerge as a result of information exposure. Our analysis of partisanship and the news diet distinguishes our paper from many information experiments in the literature, many of which are reviewed by Haaland et al ( 20 ). In relevant work, Faia et al ( 21 ) studies how partisan views interact with information selection and processing, leading media consumers to filter news that complements their prior convictions.…”

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Information, partisanship, and preferences in a pandemic

Rothwell

Makridis²,

Ramirez³

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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We investigate the role of information exposure in shaping attitudes and behaviors related to the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic and whether baseline political affiliation and news diet mediate effects. In December 2020, we randomly assigned 5,009 U.S. adults to nine brief text-based segments related to the dynamics of the pandemic and the safety of various behaviors, estimating the effects on 15 binary outcomes related to COVID-19 policy preferences, expected consumer behavior, and beliefs about safety. Average effects reach significance (95% CI) in 47 out of 120 models and equal 7.4 ppt. The baseline effects are large for all outcomes except beliefs. By contrast, interaction effects by political party and media diet are significant for beliefs but rarely significant for policy and behavioral attitudes. These findings suggest partisan policy and behavioral gaps are driven, at least in part, by exposure to different information and that equalizing information sources would lead to partisan convergence in beliefs.

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“…The potential of information to influence decision‐making has gained increasing attention in the literature. Consequently, information provision experiments—economic experiments in which information is provided and/or varied to investigate the choice of economic agents (Haaland et al, 2022) have increased over the last decade. For instance, Haaland et al (2022) showed that the number of information provision experiments published in top economics journals in 2020 is more than five times the number published in the same outlets in 2010, suggesting the growing importance of these experiments.…”

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“…It helps economic agents to mitigate uncertainty (Handel & Schwartzstein, 2018) and is critical in their preference formation (Bateman et al, 2009). Information also affects beliefs and perceived constraints, which are essential in decision‐making (Haaland et al, 2022). These functions of information explain the growing attention to information's effects on preferences and welfare estimates.…”

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Information effects in discrete choice experiments: Does type of delivery matter for valuation estimates and attribute nonattendance?

Agossadou

Nayga

2023

J of Agr & App Econ Assoc

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We examine the impact of using combined text script and audio clip versus text script only to convey information on US low‐skilled nonmigrant workers' willingness to accept agricultural field jobs amid COVID‐19 pandemic. Using a discrete choice experiment, subjects were randomly assigned to one of the two information modalities. Respondents assigned to combined text script and audio clip were willing to accept more for several job attributes, especially when estimates were conditional on attribute attendance. Moreover, this information modality lowered the prevalence of attribute nonattendance. The findings have important implications for the design of information provision experiments.

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Designing Information Provision Experiments

Cited by 190 publications

References 249 publications

(Why) Do farmers’ Big Five personality traits matter? – A systematic literature review

(Why) Do farmers’ Big Five personality traits matter? – A systematic literature review

Information, partisanship, and preferences in a pandemic

Information effects in discrete choice experiments: Does type of delivery matter for valuation estimates and attribute nonattendance?

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