A Survey Module to Measure Economic Preferences and other individual-level behavioral factors

with S. Müller, H. A. Rau, and L. Zhurakovska-Wasserka

We introduce a survey module for simple elicitation of behavioral factors (economic preferences, personal traits, cognitive biases). We extend the survey module of Falk (2023)  by developin further survey instruments for  behavioral factors of relevance for studies in developing economies. We first elicit behavioral factors with well-established incentivized lab experiments. After four weeks for each participant, we elicit the same factors with a survey module. Our contributions are fourfold. First, we validate simple elicitation methods for developing contexts in realistic scenarios where enumerators collect the data. Second, we enrich and validate existing modules by evaluating survey questions for behavioral factors relevant in developing contexts. Third, we examine the robustness of these modules in elicitation conditions (face-to-face, phone interviews, online surveys) that are common practice in development contexts. Fourth, we assess whether non-incentivized measures explain the same amount of heterogeneity as the incentivized measures under the different eliciation methods.