ERIC Number: EJ694889
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Aug
Pages: 20
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 35
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ISSN: ISSN-1380-3611
What Money Can Buy: Examining the Effects of Prepaid Monetary Incentives on Survey Response Rates among College Students
Szelenyi, Katalin; Bryant, Alyssa N.; Lindholm, Jennifer A.
Educational Research and Evaluation, v11 n4 p385-404 Aug 2005
This study examined the effects of prepaid monetary incentives on college students' rate of responding to a survey designed to assess beliefs and values. It also assessed the extent to which incentive effectiveness depended on such student characteristics as gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The findings suggest that $2 incentives enhance response rates over $0, but that $5 incentives do not substantially improve response rates over $2 incentives. Further, although the descriptive findings suggested that the effectiveness of incentives varied across different groups of students, multivariate analyses identified no such differences.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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