The effects of cash, electronic, and paper gift certificates as respondent incentives for a web-based survey of technologically sophisticated respondents

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 355-362

  Birnholtz, Jeremy P ^a   Horn, Daniel B ^a   Finholt, Thomas A ^a,b   Bae, Sung Joo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Michigan ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboratory; Earthquake engineering; Methods; Survey incentives; Web based surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242717116     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439304263147     Document Type: Review

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