Learning Preferences from Conjoint Data: A Hybrid Structural Deep Learning Approach
从联合分析数据学习偏好:结构模型与深度学习的混合方法
Conjoint experiments randomize multidimensional profiles, yet political science applications typically report only nonparametric averages that do not recover counterfactual choices or individual tradeoffs. We develop a hybrid structural approach for recovering individual preferences from conjoint data. The estimator combines a flexible machine-learning mean preference function, via a deep netural network in our applications, with respondent-level empirical-Bayes updating in…