{"id":3610,"date":"2026-05-14T09:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:21:15","slug":"understanding-economic-behavior-using-open-ended-survey-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/publications\/understanding-economic-behavior-using-open-ended-survey-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Economic Behavior Using Open-Ended Survey Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"custom-pagination-text-research-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1257\/jel.20251780\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3089\" src=\"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-14-092007.png\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-pagination-text-research-content\">Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth, Stefanie Stantcheva &#038; Johannes Wohlfart, 2025, <em><br \/>\nJournal of Economic Literature, <\/em> 63 (4) <em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-pagination-text-research-content\">\n<p><!--more Continue reading--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-pagination-text-research-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1257\/jel.20251780\">link to publication<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-pagination-text-research-abstract\">Abstract:<br \/>\nWe 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\u2013powered 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.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3612,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}