Understanding Economic Behavior Using Open-Ended Survey Data

Ingar Haaland

doi:10.1257/jel.20251780

Understanding Economic Behavior Using Open-Ended Survey Data

2025-12-01

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DOI：10.1257/jel.20251780

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We survey the recent literature in economics using open-ended survey data to uncover mechanisms behind economic beliefs and behaviors. We first provide an overview of different applications, including the measurement of motives, mental models, narratives, attention, information transmission, and recall. We next describe different ways of eliciting open-ended responses, including single-item open-ended questions, speech recordings, and artificial intelligence-powered qualitative interviews. Subsequently, we discuss methods to annotate and analyze such data with a focus on recent advances in large language models. Our review concludes with a discussion of promising avenues for future research. (JEL C83, C90, D83, D91)

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VERBAL REPORTS

MIXED-METHODS

QUESTIONS

INTERVIEWS

RESPONSES

QUALITY

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