eprintid: 36795
rev_number: 16
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3114
dir: disk0/00/03/67/95
datestamp: 2025-07-01 12:58:27
lastmod: 2025-07-01 13:39:30
status_changed: 2025-07-01 12:58:27
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Chlond, Bettina
creators_name: Goeschl, Timo
creators_name: Lohse, Johannes
title: Revealed preferences for policy experiments
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
abstract: 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.
date: 2025
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00036795
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0763
ppn_swb: 1929477198
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-367956
language: eng
bibsort: CHLONDBETTREVEALEDPR20250425
full_text_status: public
series: AWI Discussion Paper Series
volume: 0763
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pages: 58
citation:   Chlond, Bettina ; Goeschl, Timo ; Lohse, Johannes  (2025) Revealed preferences for policy experiments.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/36795/7/Chlond_revealed_preferences_dp_763_2025.pdf