On the meaningfulness of testing preference axioms in stated preference discrete choice experiments

Jens Leth Hougaard; Carl Tue Tjur; Lars Peter Raahave Østerdal

doi:10.1007/s10198-011-0312-4

On the meaningfulness of testing preference axioms in stated preference discrete choice experiments

Jens Leth Hougaard, Carl Tue Tjur, Lars Peter Raahave Østerdal

Department of Economics

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Abstract

A stream of studies on evaluation of health care services and public goods have developed tests of the preference axioms of completeness and transitivity and methods for detecting other preference phenomena such as unstability, learning- and tiredness effects, and random error, in stated preference discrete choice experiments.
This methodological paper tries to identify the role of the preference axioms and other preference phenomena in the context of such experiments and discusses whether or howsuch axioms and phenomena can be subject to meaningful (statistical) tests.

Original language	English
Journal	European Journal of Health Economics
Volume	13
Pages (from-to)	409–417
ISSN	1618-7598
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-011-0312-4
Publication status	Published - Aug 2012

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Faculty of Social Sciences

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