TY - RPRT AU - Falk, Armin AU - Becker, Anke AU - Dohmen, Thomas AU - Huffman, David B. AU - Sunde, Uwe TI - The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences PY - 2016/Jan/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 9674 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9674 AB - This paper presents an experimentally validated survey module to measure six key economic preferences – risk aversion, discounting, trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity – in a reliable, parsimonious and cost-effective way. The survey instruments included in the module were the best predictors of preferences revealed in incentivized choice experiments. We also offer a streamlined version of the module that has been optimized and piloted for applications where time efficiency and simplicity are paramount, such as international telephone surveys. KW - experiment KW - preference measurement KW - survey validation ER -