Incentives in Surveys - Data Set

Data set and codebook variables for paper   
Incentives in Surveys, accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Psychology.

Abstract: Surveys typically use hypothetical questions to measure subjective and unverifiable concepts like happiness and quality of life. We test whether this is problematic using a large survey experiment on health and subjective well-being. We use Prelec’s Bayesian truth serum to incentivize the experiment and defaults to introduce biases in responses. Without defaults, the data quality was good and incentives had no impact. With defaults, incentives reduced biases in the subjective well-being questions by inducing participants to spend more effort. Incentives had no impact on the health questions regardless of whether defaults were used.

本数据集包含论文《调查中的激励：发表于《经济心理学杂志》的论文》的变量和数据集描述。摘要：调查通常采用假设性问题来衡量主观且难以验证的概念，如幸福感和生活质量。本研究通过一项大规模的调查实验，对健康和主观福祉进行测试，以检验采用假设性问题是否存在问题。我们采用Prelec的贝叶斯真相血清作为实验的激励手段，并通过默认选项来引入回答中的偏差。在没有默认选项的情况下，数据质量良好，激励措施没有产生影响。而在使用默认选项的情况下，激励措施通过促使参与者投入更多努力，降低了主观福祉问题中的偏差。值得注意的是，无论是否使用默认选项，激励措施对健康问题均无影响。