Examining the Gender Effects of Different Incentive Amounts in a Web Survey

Field Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 91-104

  Boulianne, Shelley ^a  

^a MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

gender; incentives; web survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872547491     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X12453113     Document Type: Article

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