Despite substantial policy efforts made by the French government to reduce dependence on pesticides, farming practices are only changing slowly. This paper analyses socio-economic trade-offs that 110 farmers currently facing in transition agro-ecological practices. A mixed-method approach - a quantitative discrete choice experiment (DCE) and qualitative interviews was set up understand these fa...

OBJECTIVE To examine parents' preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for HPV vaccines. METHODS A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used. Parents with at least one daughter aged 9-13 years residing in Songkhla province were asked to choose one alternative from each DCE choice set describing HPV vaccines by four attributes, including cervical cancer risk reduction, genital warts risk reduc...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the predictive value of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) in public health by comparing stated preferences to actual behavior. METHODS 780 Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients received a questionnaire, containing a DCE with five attributes related to T2DM patients' willingness to participate in a combined lifestyle intervention. Panel m...

BACKGROUND DCE was applied to investigate nursing students' preferred hospital choice criteria and to investigate the trends in the trade-offs by calculating the marginal rate of substitution between these criteria. This study identified the properties of the hospitals primarily selected by nursing students, and aims to estimate the monetary value of each attribute. METHODS Based on discussio...

ObjectivesAlthough literature exists on using qualitative methods to generate potential attributes for a discrete choice experiment (DCE), there is little selecting which include. We present case study in best-worst scaling 1 (BWS-1) survey was used guide attribute selection DCE. The study’s context the decision making of professionals around augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) sys...

To appropriately weight dimensions of quality life instruments for health economic evaluations, population and patient preferences need to be elicited. Two commonly used elicitation methods this purpose are discrete choice experiments (DCE) case 2 best-worst scaling (BWS). These differ in terms their cognitive burden, which is especially relevant when eliciting among older people. Using a rando...

BACKGROUND To be able to make valid inferences on stated preference data from a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) it is essential that researchers know if participants were actively involved, understood and interpreted the provided information correctly and whether they used complex decision strategies to make their choices and thereby acted in accordance with the continuity axiom. METHODS Dur...

The study of human behaviour has been cementing its place within economics for decades. complexity decisions in family farming, challenging agricultural markets, and climate change have drawn attention to behaviour, namely risk perceptions the decision-making process, with a focus on economics. This paper reviews current knowledge management agriculture from behavioral perspective, perspective ...

This paper examines the axiom of continuity in the context of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) where continuity implies compensatory decision-making. That is individuals are assumed to consider, and make trade-offs, between all attributes within choice sets. This assumption of compensatory decision-making is investigated through consideration of respondents’ trade offs when valuing alternativ...