Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/211101 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP08/19
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper is concerned with learning decision makers' (DMs) preferences using data on observed choices from a fi nite set of risky alternatives with monetary outcomes. We propose a discrete choice model with unobserved heterogeneity in consideration sets (the collection of alternatives considered by DMs) and unobserved heterogeneity in standard risk aversion. In this framework, stochastic choice is driven both by different rankings of alternatives induced by unobserved heterogeneity in risk preferences and by different sets of alternatives considered. We obtain sufficient conditions for seminonparametric point identi fication of both the distribution of unobserved heterogeneity in preferences and the distribution of consideration sets. Our method yields an estimator that is easy to compute and that can be used in markets with a large number of alternatives. We apply our method to a dataset on property insurance purchases. We fi nd that although households are on average strongly risk averse, they consider lower coverages more frequently than higher coverages. Finally, we estimate the monetary losses associated with limited consideration in our application.
Subjects: 
discrete choice
limited consideration
semi-nonparametric identification
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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