The Behavioral Measurement Toolbox: A Standardized Measurement Instrument and Social Science Research Community Platform
The Behavioral Measurement Toolbox (BMT) addresses the lack of standardization and simplicity in behavioral measurement. The vision of the BMT is to allow measuring preferences through incentivized, controlled decisions without requiring programming knowledge or own IT infrastructure, and with just a few clicks, while maintaining transparency and comparability to previous and future studies. It thereby aims to (i) make behavioral measurement an effective research tool for the quantitative social sciences by facilitating its implementation in own research, as well as (ii) increase the accessibility of other researchers’ work.
BMT will serve the role of a research platform coordinating decentralized research efforts and aggregating insights surrounding behavioral measurement. It will also include a publicly accessible database automatically tracking the implementation choices of researchers to make behavioral measurement more transparent, inform future implementations, and mitigate publication bias.
Financial support by the DFG as part of the Infrastructure Priority Program SPP 2431 “New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences” (PIs: Florian Hett, JGU Mainz and Michael Kosfeld, GU Frankfurt) as well as the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE is gratefully acknowledged.