Cheap Talk Reconsidered: New Evidence From CVM

By David Aadland, A. Caplan. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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Augmenting short Cheap Talk scripts with a repeated Opt-Out Reminder in Choice Experiment surveys (2014, result): “However, the effect of CT has been tested extensively in subsequent CVM studies, and the results here are much more ambiguous (Aadland and Caplan 2003; 2006; Ami et al. 2009; Barrage and Lee 2010; Brown et al. 2003; Carlsson and Martinsson 2006; List 2001; 2003; Morrison and Brown 2009; Murphy et…”
Eliciting Willingness to Pay Without Bias: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2008, unknown): “Aadland and Caplan (2006) develop a general cheap talk script that is short and neutral with regard to the direction of hypothetical bias and find that it exacerbates, rather than mitigates, the bias.”
Hypothetical bias in stated choice experiments: Part II. Macro-scale analysis of literature and effectiveness of bias mitigation methods (2021, background): “…evidence is not unanimous and its effectiveness has been shown to depend on factors such as the length of the script (Aadland and Caplan, 2003; Aadland and Caplan, 2006), the description of (the direction of) the bias (Aadland and Caplan, 2006), subject characteristics (List, 2001), payment…”
Testing the Effectiveness of Certainty Scales, Cheap Talk, and Dissonance-Minimization in Reducing Hypothetical Bias in Contingent Valuation Studies (2009, background): “For example, Aadland and Caplan (2006) use a script they call cheap talk that warns generally of bias without suggesting the direction of the bias.”