Smith, V. Kerry. <br/><br/>
Compassion or Cash:  Evaluating Survey Response Incentives and Valuing Public Goods / 
V. Kerry Smith, Sharon L. Harlan, Michael McLaen, Jacob Fishman, Carlos Valcarcel, Marcia Nation. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2015. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w21288 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w21288. .
<br/><br/> June 2015. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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