Status Quo Effect in Choice Experiments: Empirical Evidence on Attitudes and Choice Task Complexity

Meyerhoff, Jürgen; Liebe, Ulf

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“…A reason for this might be that inhabitants of BB have more substitute sites such as lakes available in their surroundings and therefore have less strong preferences for changing the current water quality of the river stretches. Alternatively, it is discussed in the literature whether such a finding is the consequence of a status quo bias, i.e., that respondents have an unduly propensity to choose the status quo option (Lanz and Provinz [34]; Meyerhoff and Liebe [35]). While not determining the motives for choosing the status quo option here, we assume that with 82 percent of the respondents at least once choosing an option with an improved water quality and a positive price the survey is not impaired by a status quo bias.…”

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“…Although the economic analysis was at the core of the WFD implementation 32 process from the beginning, estimating the benefits associated with a good ecological status was not 33 originally on the agenda. It was latter on suggested by researchers to employ economic valuation 34 when the need to define disproportional high measurement costs became evident (Brouwer [1]; 35 Hanley et al [2]). Meanwhile, several studies from across Europe determining the benefits of 36 changes in water quality have been presented, e.g., Bliem and Getzner [3]; Brouwer et al [4]; Glenk 37 et al [5]; Kataria et al [6], and Metcalfe et al [7].…”

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The value of water quality improvements in the region Berlin–Brandenburg as a function of distance and state residency

Meyerhoff

Boeri

Hartje

2014

Water Resources and Economics

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The value of water quality improvements in the region BerlinBrandenburg as a function of distance and state residency Meyerhoff, J., Boeri, M., & Hartje, V. (2014) The value of water quality improvements in the rivers of the metropolitan region Berlin-1 Brandenburg as a function of distance and state residency 2Abstract: The study uses a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to elicit willingness to pay estimates for 3 changes in the water quality of five river stretches. As many regions the metropolitan region Berlin-4Brandenburg struggles to achieve the objectives of the Water Framework Directive until 2015. A 5 major problem is the high load of nutrients. As the region is part of two states (Länder) and the river 6 sections are common throughout the whole region we account for the spatial context twofold. Firstly, 7we incorporate the distance between each respondent and all river stretches in all MNL and RPL 8 models, and, secondly, we consider whether respondents reside in the state of Berlin or Brandenburg. 9The compensating variation (CV) calculated for various scenarios shows that overall people would 10 significantly benefit from improved water quality. The CV measures, however, also reveal that not 11 considering the spatial context would result in severely biased welfare measures. While the distance-12 decay effect lowers CV state residency is connected to the frequency of status quo choices and not 13 accounting for residency would underestimate possible welfare gains in one state. Another finding is 14 that the extent of the market varies with respect to attributes (river stretches) and attribute levels (water 15 quality levels). 16

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The value of water quality improvements in the region Berlin–Brandenburg as a function of distance and state residency

Meyerhoff

Boeri

Hartje

2014

Water Resources and Economics

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“…B. Ausblendung einzelner Merkmale), vermehrte Wahlen der status-quo-option oder Tab. 2: Auszug aus der datenmatrix id cset Alt Alt1 Alt2 Alt3 info Zeit kost Wahl Alter 2 4 1 1 0 0 1 16 500 1 30 2 4 2 0 1 0 0 2 250 0 30 2 4 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 30 2 5 1 1 0 0 1 8 20 0 30 2 5 2 0 1 0 0 30 100 1 30 2 5 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 30 3 4 1 1 0 0 1 16 500 0 40 3 4 2 0 1 0 0 2 250 0 40 id kennzeichnet die einzelnen Befragten, cset meint nummer des choice-sets; Alt bezieht sich auf die jeweilige Alternative im Choice-Set; Alt1, Alt2, Alt3 sind alternativenspezifische konstanten mit der Ausprägung 1, wenn die jeweilige Alternative vorliegt; info ist eine ordinal kodierte Variable für das informationsattribut mit den Ausprägungen 1 = einfach, 2 = umfangreich und 0 = keine informationen; Zeit bezieht sich auf das Attribut "Wartezeit für die testergebnisse"; kosten auf das Attribut "kosten des tests"; Wahl gibt die gewählte Alternative pro choice-set an, und Alter bezieht sich auf das Alter der befragten Person völlige Antwortverweigerungen (Auspurg et al 2009;deshazo und Fermo 2002;hensher et al 2005;Meyerhoff und Liebe 2009;swait und Adamowicz 2001). derartige effekte sind jedoch durch einhaltung der oben genannten methodischen richtlinien gering zu halten (hensher 2006).…”

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Choice-Experimente und die Messung von Handlungsentscheidungen in der Soziologie

Auspurg

Liebe

2011

Köln Z Soziol

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Zusammenfassung: in umfragebasierten choice-experimenten wählen Befragte aus verschiedenen (handlungs-)Alternativen die von ihnen am meisten präferierte aus. indem Merkmale dieser Alternativen gezielt variiert werden, lässt sich ihr Einfluss auf die abgefragten Auswahlentscheidungen bestimmen und eine weitaus direktere Prüfung kausaler Zusammenhänge erreichen als mit "herkömmlichen" Befragungsdaten. im Gegensatz zu den verwandten Faktoriellen surveys ist die Methodik direkter auf handlungs-und entscheidungstheorien zugeschnitten und bereits eine hohe externe Validität belegt. im vorliegenden Beitrag werden choice-experimente in ihren Grundzügen dargestellt (theoretische Fundierung, Ausgestaltung, datenerhebung und -auswertung) und vergleichend zu Faktoriellen surveys diskutiert. Ziel ist es, praktische handreichungen zu geben und zu vermehrten soziologischen Anwendungen zu motivieren. Schlüsselwörter: choice-experimente · Befragung · handlungstheorien · random utility theoryChoice-experiments and the measurement of behavioral decisions in sociology Abstract: in survey-based choice experiments respondents choose from various alternative options (for actions) the most preferable one. By systematically varying attributes of the options it is possible to determine their influence on the stated choices. This enables a more direct testing of causal relations than it is possible with "usual" survey data. in contrast to the similar design of factorial surveys the method corresponds better with action and decision theories and a high external validity is already shown. in the paper on hand, choice experiments are introduced in

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“…In environmental DCM applications, an ASC is usually added to capture differences in utility between the status quo alternative (or an 'opt-out' alternative) and the other choice options. It may be possible to assign a behavioural interpretation to the status quo option, for example related to protest attitudes (Meyerhoff and Liebe 2009), if the attribute levels used to describe the status quo also appear in the designed part of the choice experiment. If this is not the case, however, it is not possible to estimate the difference in utility between the baseline level of the attributes (used in the status quo option) and the reference level (the lowest level appearing in the designed part of the choice experiment).…”

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Inferring Attribute Non-attendance from Discrete Choice Experiments: Implications for Benefit Transfer

Glenk

Martín-Ortega

Pulido-Velázquez

et al. 2014

Environ Resource Econ

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Typical convergent validity tests of benefit transfer based on stated preference data assume that willingness to pay (WTP) estimates have been accurately measured, and that differences in WTP arise from differences in observable and unobservable characteristics between the study and the policy sites. In this paper, we conduct a convergent validity test assuming equality of underlying preferences, but allow for the possibility that transfer errors arise from differences in the way that respondents process information in the preference elicitation tasks. Using data from an identical survey instrument applied to the population of two river basins in Spain, we obtain marginal and total WTP estimates for ecological improvements of water bodies and the corresponding transfer errors across sites. Results of equality constraint latent class (ECLC) models that infer attribute non-attendance (AN-A) are compared to results from mixed logit (MXL) models in WTP space. We found large absolute and relative differences in marginal and total WTP between sites for the MXL models, and significantly reduced transfer errors for the ECLC model. This paper therefore provides further evidence that AN-A can significantly affect environmental values derived from attribute-based stated preference methods and is the first to investigate the implications for benefit transfer.

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Status Quo Effect in Choice Experiments: Empirical Evidence on Attitudes and Choice Task Complexity

Cited by 166 publications

References 25 publications

The value of water quality improvements in the region Berlin–Brandenburg as a function of distance and state residency

The value of water quality improvements in the region Berlin–Brandenburg as a function of distance and state residency

Choice-Experimente und die Messung von Handlungsentscheidungen in der Soziologie

Inferring Attribute Non-attendance from Discrete Choice Experiments: Implications for Benefit Transfer

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