Revealed preferences for policy experiments
Randomized controlled trials remain underutilized in informing policy design, despite their potential. Moral objections to experimentation ("experiment aversion") have been proposed as an explanation. We present three studies with members of the general public and policy-makers that allow...
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| Natura: | Book/Monograph Working Paper |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Heidelberg
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
01 Jul. 2025
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| Serie: | AWI discussion paper series
no. 763 (May 2025) |
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AWI discussion paper series (no. 763 (May 2025))
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| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00036795 |
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| Accesso online: | Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-367956 Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00036795 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/36795 Verlag, kostenfrei: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/36795/7/Chlond_revealed_preferences_dp_763_2025.pdf Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324237 
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| Note sull'autore: | by Bettina Chlond, Timo Goeschl and Johannes Lohse |
| Riassunto: | Randomized controlled trials remain underutilized in informing policy design, despite their potential. Moral objections to experimentation ("experiment aversion") have been proposed as an explanation. We present three studies with members of the general public and policy-makers that allow us to measure and compare moral approval, stated preferences as well as revealed preferences for policy experimentation, within the overarching context of a public assistance program. We find that evidence based on moral approval systematically underestimates revealed preferences for policy experimentation due to conceptual misalignment and hypothetical bias. People and policy-makers trade off possible moral objections against the benefits of policy experimentation. |
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| Descrizione fisica: | Online Resource |
| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00036795 |