Effects of increasing the incentive size in a longitudinal study

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 279-299

  Rodgers, Willard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data quality; Nonrandom missing data; Panel attrition; Respondent incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959517358     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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