Eliciting Welfare Preferences from Behavioural Data Sets
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Eliciting Welfare Preferences from Behavioural Data Sets
An individual displays various preference orderings in different payoff-irrelevant circumstances. It is assumed that the variation in the observed preference orderings is the outcome of some cognitive process that distorts the underlying preferences of the individual. We introduce a framework for eliciting the individual’s underlying preferences in such cases and then demonstrate it for two cog...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Review of Economic Studies
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0034-6527,1467-937X
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdr024