Transport surveys are designed to provide information that can give greater insight into individuals’ mobility habits. It is important in these surveys that efforts be made to ensure that the data collected accurately reflects those of the subject population under examination. A stated preference survey is a particular format of surveys that has been of particular interest to transport research...

This paper reports the results of a stated preference experiment designed to test for how information provided in a survey affects knowledge, and how knowledge affects preferences for a public good. A novel experimental design allows us to elicit subjects’ ex ante knowledge levels about a good’s attributes, exogenously vary how much new objective information about these attributes we provide to...

This paper introduces a variant of choice experiment valuation designed to ameliorate common limitations related to a lack of ecological clarity in stated preference survey scenarios. This approach, which we call BioindicatorBased Stated Preference Valuation (BSPV), is distinguished by guidelines that inform the structure and use of ecological indicators to define policy scenarios in valuation ...

Traditionally, economists make a sharp distinction between stated and revealed preferences, viewing the latter as more fully meeting the assumptions of economic analysis. Here, we consider one form of empirical evidence regarding this belief: the consistency of choices in stated and revealed preference tasks. We show that both kinds of task can produce consistent choices, suggesting that both c...

In this paper, we examined both stated norms of sex preference and actual sex-biases in parental investment in a Tibetan pastoralist society. We collected detailed demographic data on infant mortality, infant feeding, the length of interbirth intervals, and a decision when giving gifts, to examine sex-biased parental investment. Our results indicate a mismatch between self-reported son preferen...

Preference heterogeneity is one of the central behavioral concepts in applied econometrics. Its centrality particularly evident choice modeling literature, notably its widespread application to environmental and health economics, marketing, transport. Despite conceptual empirical advances preference heterogeneity, generalizability different decision contexts data generation processes remains an...