Eliciting probabilistic expectations with visual aids in developing countries: how sensitive are answers to variations in elicitation design? (replication data)

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Eliciting subjective probability distributions in developing countries is often based on visual aids such as beans to represent probabilities and intervals on a sheet of paper to represent the support. We conduct an experiment in India which tests the sensitivity of elicited expectations to variations in three facets of the elicitation methodology: the number of beans, the design of the support (predetermined or self-anchored), and the ordering of questions. Our results show remarkable robustness to variations in elicitation design. Nevertheless, the added precision offered by using more beans and a larger number of intervals with a predetermined support improves accuracy.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15456/jae.2022320.0721854078
Metadata Access https://www.da-ra.de/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:oai.da-ra.de:775833
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Creator Delavande, Adeline; Gine, Xavier; McKenzie, David
Publisher ZBW - Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Publication Year 2011
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY); Download
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Contact ZBW - Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
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Language English
Resource Type Collection
Discipline Economics