voprecotestВопросы экономикиVoprosy Ekonomiki0042-8736Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP10.32609/0042-8736-2023-9-103-120voprecotest-4629Research ArticleВОПРОСЫ ТЕОРИИISSUES OF THEORYИспользование опросов-самоотчетов в экономической науке: методологические барьеры и их преодолениеThe use of self-reports in economics: Methodological barriers and their overcominghttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-2544БакеевМ. Б.BakeevM. B.

Бакеев Мурат Булатович, аспирант департамента теоретической экономики факультета экономических наук, сотрудник Центра истории и методологии экономической науки 

Москва

Murat B. Bakeev

Moscow

mbakeev@hse.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0974-8723ЛолаИ. С.LolaI. S.

Лола Инна Сергеевна, кандидат экономических наук, замдиректора Центра конъюнктурных исследований Института статистических исследований и экономики знаний 

Москва

Inna S. Lola

Moscow

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Проанализирована история использования в экономической науке опросов-самоотчетов с целью исследовать логику преодоления в последние десятилетия методологических барьеров, прежде ограничивавших применение таких данных в экономике. Рассмотрены два наиболее распространенных в науке типа данных опросов-самоотчетов: о субъективных ожиданиях, намерениях и установках; о субъективном благополучии, счастье и удовлетворенности жизнью. Сделан вывод, что основными причинами изменений можно считать произошедшие на рубеже веков в экономической науке трансформации: повышение престижа прикладных исследований («прикладной» поворот), фрагментацию дисциплины и снижение важности моделей рационального выбора по сравнению с экспериментальными и квазиэкспериментальными методами. Перспективы использования таких самоотчетов в экономике представляются многообещающими благодаря произошедшим методологическим трансформациям, усилению междисциплинарного сотрудничества и стремительному развитию методов сбора и обработки данных.

The paper analyzes the history of the use of self-reports in economics in order to study the logic of overcoming methodological barriers in recent decades that previously limited the use of such data in economics. The two most widely used types of self-reported data in economics were considered: first, data on subjective expectations, intentions, and attitudes; second, data on subjective wellbeing, happiness, and life satisfaction. It is concluded that the main reasons for the changes can be identified as the transformations that took place in economics at the turn of the century: an increase in the prestige of applied research (the so-called “applied” turn), the fragmentation of the discipline, and a decrease in the importance of rational choice models compared to experimental and quasiexperimental methods. The prospects for the future use of self-reported data in economics are promising due to the methodological changes that have taken place, the expansion of interdisciplinary cooperation, and the rapid development of methods for collecting and processing data.

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