Social preferences for agricultural policy instruments: joint consideration of non-attendance to attributes in modelling discrete choice data

S Colombo, K Glenk

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Abstract

This paper uses the choice experiment method to analyse social preferences towards a set of agricultural policy instruments that are likely to play a key role in the post-2013 design of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. It contributes to the choice experiment literature by incorporating different attribute processing strategies into stated choice models. By comparing models that consider attribute non-attendance for individual choice tasks and for the whole sequence of choices, we demonstrate the impact of different ways of accounting for attribute nonattendance on model performance and preferences. In addition, we test whether ‘non-attendance to alternatives’, which describes the elimination of alternatives due to the presence of attribute levels deemed unacceptable to a respondent, is a relevant information processing strategy in a choice experiment context. The results clearly show that individuals allocate attention over a reduced array of information and jointly apply decision strategies that involve attribute nonattendance and non-attendance to alternatives. The joint consideration of these information processing strategies results in a significant improvement of model fit to data, and a better description of respondents’ preferences.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)215 - 232
Number of pages18
JournalJournal of Environmental Planning and Management
Volume57
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPrint publication - 2014

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Keywords

  • Attribute processing strategies
  • Choice experiment
  • Common Agricultural Policy instruments

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