Incentives and ethnic minorities: Results of a controlled randomized experiment in the Netherlands

Survey Research Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 159-165

  Feskens, Remco ^a   Hox, Joop ^a   Schmeets, Hans ^b   Wetzels, Willem ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethnic minorities; Incentives; Nonresponse; Propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902549012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18643361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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