Investigating Economic Behavior Through Household Surveys

Short Description: While laboratory and field experiments are the most frequently used methods in behavioral economics research, household surveys are seldomly used. We propose a short module that includes a set of general behavioral economics questions and a simple experiment. We aim to combine the previous behavioral variables of SOEP-IS with this new module to create a compact, user-friendly, and versatile dataset that can be used by behavioral economists to study a diverse set of questions.

Incentives: 5€ when reaching a certain threshold of correct answers. The incentive could be kept or donated to charity.

Methodological Details: Besides the assessment of the statement “Competition brings the best out of me” and a short hypothetical lottery choice task to measure loss aversion, respondents could participate in an incentivized quiz that included a collection of 30 questions about trivia, knowledge, simple math, and attention questions

Contact	Syear	Respondents	Dataset	Variables	Availability	Field	Method	Replication
Anna Dreber (Stockholm School of Economics, Innsbruck University), Taisuke Imai (LMU Munich), Magnus Johannesson (Stockholm School of Economics), Levent Neyse (DIW Berlin, WZB Berlin, IZA Bonn), Séverine Toussaert (Oxford University)	2022	tba	inno	i114_34, i114_5, i114_6, i114_13, i114_19, i114_15, i114_46, i114_20, i114_36, i114_9, i114_45, i114_31, i114_25, i114_12, i114_16, i114_2, i114_30, i114_17, i114_32, i114_33, i114_35, i114_24, i114_37, i114_14, i114_22, i114_39, i114_41, i114_10, i114_26, i114_51, i114_47, i114_44, bm_mode_flag, i114_48, i114_21, im_114, i114_49, i114_7, i114_28, i114_29, i114_38, i114_42, i114_40, i114_43, i114_27, i114_50, i114_23, i114_8, i114_18, i114_11, i114_3, i114_1, i114_4	~4/2025	Economics	Experiment