Social Desirability, Opportunism and Actual Support for Farmers’ Market Organisations in Ethiopia
研究发现农民对农民市场组织(FMO)的口头支持与实际销售行为存在差距，可能源于社会期望或机会主义压力，并采用列表实验方法控制这种偏差。
One of the striking issues in the literature on farmers’ market organisations (FMOs) is that farmers generally report quite positive opinions regarding the services of their FMO, while, at the same time, actual sales reveal a much more reserved attitude. We argue that farmers may feel social and/or opportunistic pressure to express positive opinions concerning the FMO, to donors and policy-makers, which are not necessarily in line with their actions. This article proposes a list experiment method to control for this bias. The method shows that especially farmers who express strong support for the FMO seriously hesitate to speak freely.