Methodological advances in food choice experiments and modeling: current practices, challenges, and future research directions

V Caputo, R Scarpa - Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
In recent decades, discrete choice experiment research applied to food choices has grown
rapidly. Empirical applications include investigations of consumer preferences and demand …

Shedding light on the economic costs of long-duration power outages: A review of resilience assessment methods and strategies

M Macmillan, K Wilson, S Baik, JP Carvallo… - Energy Research & …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper provides a literature review of methods and modeling techniques to estimate the
cost of power system outages, along with the value of outage mitigation or system resilience …

Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender

M Wiswall, B Zafar - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We use a hypothetical choice methodology to estimate preferences for workplace attributes
from a sample of high-ability undergraduates attending a highly selective university. We …

Determinants of college major choice: Identification using an information experiment

M Wiswall, B Zafar - The Review of Economic Studies, 2015 - academic.oup.com
This article studies the determinants of college major choice using an experimentally
generated panel of beliefs, obtained by providing students with information on the true …

A major in science? Initial beliefs and final outcomes for college major and dropout

R Stinebrickner, TR Stinebrickner - Review of Economic Studies, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what
college students believe at the time of entrance about their final major, relate these beliefs to …

Modeling college major choices using elicited measures of expectations and counterfactuals

P Arcidiacono, VJ Hotz, S Kang - Journal of Econometrics, 2012 - Elsevier
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of
college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future …

Truth in consequentiality: theory and field evidence on discrete choice experiments

CA Vossler, M Doyon, D Rondeau - American Economic Journal …, 2012 - pubs.aeaweb.org
This paper explores methodological issues surrounding the use of discrete choice
experiments to elicit values for public goods. We develop an explicit game theoretic model of …

Long-term-care utility and late-in-life saving

J Ameriks, J Briggs, A Caplin… - Journal of Political …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Older wealth holders spend down assets much more slowly than predicted by classic life-
cycle models. This paper introduces health-dependent utility into a model with incomplete …

Survey measurement of probabilistic macroeconomic expectations: progress and promise

CF Manski - NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Economists commonly suppose that persons have probabilistic expectations for uncertain
events, yet empirical research measuring expectations was long rare. The inhibition against …

Foundations of stated preference elicitation: Consumer behavior and choice-based conjoint analysis

M Ben-Akiva, D McFadden, K Train - Foundations and Trends® …, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
Stated preference elicitation methods collect data on consumers by" just asking" about
tastes, perceptions, valuations, attitudes, motivations, life satisfactions, and/or intended …