Compassion or Cash: Evaluating Survey Response Incentives and Valuing Public Goods

V. Smith, Sharon L. Harlan, Michael McLaen, Jacob Fishman, Carlos Valcarcel and Marcia Nation

No 21288, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to participate in a survey. By pairing the assessment with a natural field experiment, the analysis considers private versus public goods as incentives, and estimates respondents' willingness to support the oldest food bank in the U.S.

JEL-codes: C81 H44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06
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