Charities, No; Lotteries, No; Cash, Yes: Main Effects and Interactions in a Canadian Incentives Experiment

Warriner, Keith; Goyder, John; Gjertsen, Heidi; Hohner, Paula; McSpurren, Kathleen

doi:10.1086/297772

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“…We followed the Dillman et al (2009) total design method, including enhancements such as the option of a web-based, online version of the questionnaire and provision of a $5 cash incentive. Webbased questionnaires provide a potential net increase in response rate, while cash incentives have been found to enhance overall response rates to mail surveys and to reduce response latency (Warriner et al 1996).…”

Section: Mail Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

Private landowners and environmental conservation: a case study of social-psychological determinants of conservation program participation in Ontario

Drescher¹,

Warriner²,

Farmer³

et al. 2017

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Preservation of biodiversity and continued provision of ecosystem services increasingly relies on environmental conservation on private lands. Despite a multitude of past studies, our knowledge of the motives, opportunities, and challenges of private land conservation, especially on nonworking lands, where financial incentives are less relevant, remains incomplete. A key reason is that a variety of theoretical approaches, resulting in diverging study results, have been used to investigate private land conservation. To help remedy this problem, the current study rigorously examined several established social-psychological determinants of proenvironmental behaviors and developed a comprehensive model, which merged elements from previous studies, to investigate landowner participation in a government-sponsored private land conservation program for nonworking lands. The results are based on analysis of a mailed survey of 800 program-eligible landowners. Contrasting program participants with nonparticipants, we elicited information such as about values, worldviews, socio-demographic characteristics, and property attributes that led landowners to participate in this conservation program. The results of our study illustrate the complex relationships among values, worldviews, norms, attitudes, and behaviors emphasizing the importance of proenvironmental worldviews and of formal education for increasing the likelihood of enrollment in this government-sponsored private land conservation program. Against expectation, neither personal norms, household income, political leaning, nor the size of the eligible property area were found to be important in directly determining the decision to enroll in this conservation program. However, an association of political leaning with stated personal obligation for private land conservation was found. Our results highlight the relationship between formal education and achievement of private land conservation goals through governmental programs for nonworking lands; they also suggest opportunities for supporting conservationminded landowners who are disinclined to engage in governmental programs. To our knowledge, the current study is the first to use a comprehensive model to systematically compare alternative concepts from social psychology such as values, worldviews, norms, and attitudes and their relationships with private land conservation.

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Section: Mail Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

Private landowners and environmental conservation: a case study of social-psychological determinants of conservation program participation in Ontario

Drescher¹,

Warriner²,

Farmer³

et al. 2017

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“…Hopkins and Gullickson (1992) found only a small significant increase. Also, some studies have found that donations to charity and lotteries have no effect on response rates (Hubbard & Little, 1988;Roberts, Roberts, Sibbald, & Torgerson, 2000;Warriner, Goyder, Gjertsen, Hohner, & McSpurren, 1996).…”

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Methodological variables in Web-based research that may affect results: Sample type, monetary incentives, and personal information

O’Neil

Penrod

2001

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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There are many methodological differences between Web-based studies, differences that could substantially affect the results. The present study investigated whether sample type, offering payment through a lottery, and requiring participants to enter personal information would affect dropout rates and/or the substantive results in a study of jury decision making in capital cases. Asking participants to enter their e-mail addresses increased dropout rates, and offering payment through a lottery tended to do so as well. Participants offered payment tended to be less likely to give death sentences, and sample type moderated the influence of attitudes toward the death penalty on verdicts.

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“…It also examines the effectiveness of various incentive amounts and the potentially disparate effects of incentives on female versus male students and students from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. Importantly, while the benefits of prepaid monetary incentives in boosting survey response are well established in the literature (Jobber, Saunders, & Mitchell, 2004;Warriner, Goyder, Gjertsen, Hohner, & McSpurren, 1996), little research has explored their effectiveness among college students. In addition, our understanding of how differential amounts of incentives affect diverse college student populations is even more limited.…”

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What Money Can Buy: Examining the effects of prepaid monetary incentives on survey response rates among college students

Szelényi

Bryant

Lindholm

2005

Educational Research and Evaluation

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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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Charities, No; Lotteries, No; Cash, Yes: Main Effects and Interactions in a Canadian Incentives Experiment

Cited by 102 publications

References 27 publications

Private landowners and environmental conservation: a case study of social-psychological determinants of conservation program participation in Ontario

Private landowners and environmental conservation: a case study of social-psychological determinants of conservation program participation in Ontario

Methodological variables in Web-based research that may affect results: Sample type, monetary incentives, and personal information

What Money Can Buy: Examining the effects of prepaid monetary incentives on survey response rates among college students

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