A General Framework for Estimating Preferences Using Response Time Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20403v2
• Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:24:39 GMT
• Title: A General Framework for Estimating Preferences Using Response Time Data
• Authors: Federico Echenique, Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan,
• Abstract summary: The paper develops an empirical application to an experiment on intertemporal choice, showing that the use of response times delivers predictive accuracy and matters for the estimation of economically relevant parameters.
• Score: 56.70857685983896
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We propose a general methodology for recovering preference parameters from data on choices and response times. Our methods yield estimates with fast ($1/n$ for $n$ data points) convergence rates when specialized to the popular Drift Diffusion Model (DDM), but are broadly applicable to generalizations of the DDM as well as to alternative models of decision making that make use of response time data. The paper develops an empirical application to an experiment on intertemporal choice, showing that the use of response times delivers predictive accuracy and matters for the estimation of economically relevant parameters.

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