648 rated or chosen profiles from 648 respondents, in up to 1 tasks of 1 profile varying on 2 attributes.
| Description | 648 MTurk workers each read one vignette about a country (Avalon) that owes a loan to another (Freedonia), randomized on the number of jobs lost by repaying (6,000 to 100,000) and full vs partial default; outcomes are what the government should do and moral-wrongness and punishment judgements. |
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| Reference | Del Ponte, A., & DeScioli, P. (2020). Pay your debts: Moral dilemmas of international debt. Political Behavior. |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11109-020-09675-6 |
| Licence | CC0 1.0 |
| Source data | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XJ2BDK |
These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.
| Respondents | 648 |
|---|---|
| Rows (one per respondent, task and profile) | 648 |
| Tasks per respondent (most) | 1 |
| Profiles per task | 1 |
| Attributes | 2 |
| Tasks with no profile chosen | 322 |
| Topic | international economy |
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| A profile represents | scenario |
| Country | unknown |
| Language shown | en |
| Language of stored levels | en |
| Task order | inferred from row order |
| Profile position | inferred from row order |
Task order or profile position was rebuilt from row order; analyses of position or task order should leave it out.
Outcomes:
| choice | What should the government of Avalon do? repay or default (whatDo; wording not in the deposit; coding 1 = repay inferred) [choice, opt-out allowed] |
|---|---|
| rating_cuts_punish | How strong of a punishment for making cuts? (0-10) [rating, 0 (unknown) to 10 (unknown)] |
| rating_cuts_wrong | How morally wrong to make cuts? (0-10) [rating, 0 (not wrong (inferred)) to 10 (wrong (inferred))] |
| rating_cuts_wrong_binary | Would it be morally wrong to make cuts? No (0) or Yes (1) [rating, 0 (No) to 1 (Yes)] |
| rating_stop_punish | How strong of a punishment for stop repaying? (0-10) [rating, 0 (unknown) to 10 (unknown)] |
| rating_stop_repay_wrong | Would it be morally wrong to stop repaying? No (0) or Yes (1) [rating, 0 (No) to 1 (Yes)] |
| rating_stop_wrong | How morally wrong to stop repaying? (0-10) [rating, 0 (not wrong (inferred)) to 10 (wrong (inferred))] |
attr_default_typeattr_jobs_lostchoicecov_agecov_genderidprofilerating_cuts_punishrating_cuts_wrongrating_cuts_wrong_binaryrating_stop_punishrating_stop_repay_wrongrating_stop_wrongtask
The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.
Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("delponte_2020_debt_dilemmas", source = "conj")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("delponte_2020_debt_dilemmas", source="conj")
@article{Del_Ponte_2021, title={Pay Your Debts: Moral Dilemmas of International Debt}, volume={44}, ISSN={1573-6687}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11109-020-09675-6}, DOI={10.1007/s11109-020-09675-6}, number={4}, journal={Political Behavior}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Del Ponte, Alessandro and DeScioli, Peter}, year={2021}, month=Jan, pages={1657–1680} }
| IRW version | v584 |
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| Redivis dataset | irw_conjoint_2 v1.4 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/hk97-wv30 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v1.4 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v44.0 |