TY - BOOK AU - Smith,V.Kerry AU - Harlan,Sharon L. AU - McLaen,Michael AU - Fishman,Jacob AU - Valcarcel,Carlos AU - Nation,Marcia ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Compassion or Cash: Evaluating Survey Response Incentives and Valuing Public Goods T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - June 2015; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - 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 UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w21288 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w21288 ER -