62,110 rated or chosen profiles from 3,882 respondents, in up to 8 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 8 attributes.

About this table

Description	German respondents in four samples (a general-population online sample, n = 2,482, and three student samples; May-June 2019; total n = 3,882) acted as job-centre caseworkers and in 8 paired tasks chose whose application for basic income support (ALG II) to approve first, with applicants varying in gender, age, citizenship, education, benefit duration, household composition, reason for unemployment and cooperation.
Reference	Dietrich, B., Jankowski, M., Schnapp, K., & Tepe, M. (2023). Prioritizing exceptional social needs: Experimental evidence on the role of discrimination and client deservingness in public employees' and citizens' discretionary behavior. Public Policy and Administration.
DOI	10.1177/09520767231210025
Licence	CC0 1.0
Source data	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6MLKJZ

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint). choice = "Wessen Antrag lassen Sie zuerst bewilligen?" (whose application do you approve first; Person A or B, forced, no opt-out). German level text; attrpos_ give the per-respondent attribute row order. Four samples pooled (cov_sample; cov_sector for the general-population sample); preview, incomplete and non-consenting responses excluded as by the authors; one task with an invalid answer dropped. N = 3,882, not checked against the article.

These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.

Design

Topic	tax welfare economy
A profile represents	person
Country	DE
Language shown	de
Language of stored levels	de
Randomization restrictions	unknown
Task order	recorded in the deposit
Profile position	recorded in the deposit

Outcomes:

choice	Wessen Antrag lassen Sie zuerst bewilligen? [choice, forced]

Columns

attr_ageattr_citizenshipattr_cooperationattr_duration_benefitsattr_educationattr_genderattr_householdattr_unemployment_reasonattrpos_ageattrpos_citizenshipattrpos_cooperationattrpos_duration_benefitsattrpos_educationattrpos_genderattrpos_householdattrpos_unemployment_reasonchoicecov_agecov_east_westcov_gendercov_left_rightcov_samplecov_sectorcov_studentidprofiletask

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.

Get the data

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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("dietrich_2023_welfare_priority", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("dietrich_2023_welfare_priority", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Dietrich_2023, title={Prioritizing exceptional social needs. Experimental evidence on the role of discrimination and client deservingness in public employees’ and citizens’ discretionary behavior}, volume={41}, ISSN={1749-4192}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09520767231210025}, DOI={10.1177/09520767231210025}, number={1}, journal={Public Policy and Administration}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Dietrich, Brian and Jankowski, Michael and Schnapp, Kai-Uwe and Tepe, Markus}, year={2023}, month=Nov, pages={32–54} }

Respondents	3,882
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	62,110
Tasks per respondent (most)	8
Profiles per task	2
Attributes	8
Tasks with no profile chosen	0

IRW version	v584
Redivis dataset	irw_conjoint v4.2
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/qkye-q530
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v4.2
Metadata source	irw_meta v44.0

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