调查测量与激励性风险偏好测量：性工作者风险性行为的证据。

Survey measures versus incentivized measures of risk preferences: Evidence from sex workers' risky sexual transactions.

机构信息

Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia.

出版信息

Soc Sci Med. 2019 Oct;238:112497. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112497. Epub 2019 Aug 20.

DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112497

Abstract

Survey measures of risk attitudes are primarily used in the health literature, although incentivized measures of risk preferences are being increasingly used in other fields. We exploit the unique setting of commercial female sex workers in Bangladesh to investigate whether incentivized measures of risk preferences, or non-incentivized survey measures of risk preferences, best identify the risky commercial sex decisions that they make. The study uses survey data collected during February-April 2016, and October-November 2016 from eight brothels in Bangladesh. Wave 1 includes 1,332 female sex workers, Wave 2 includes 1,185 female sex workers. Our findings suggest that researchers can reliably use survey measures to elicit risk preferences on health.

摘要

风险态度的调查衡量主要用于健康文献中，尽管激励性的风险偏好衡量在其他领域也越来越多地被使用。我们利用孟加拉国商业性工作者的独特环境，来研究激励性的风险偏好衡量，或非激励性的风险偏好调查衡量，是否最能识别她们做出的有风险的商业性行为决策。该研究使用了 2016 年 2 月至 4 月和 2016 年 10 月至 11 月期间从孟加拉国的八个妓院收集的调查数据。第 1 波包括 1332 名性工作者，第 2 波包括 1185 名性工作者。我们的研究结果表明，研究人员可以可靠地使用调查衡量来获取关于健康的风险偏好。