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The Influence of an Up-Front Experiment on Respondents’ Recording Behaviour in Payment Diaries: Evidence from Germany Cover

The Influence of an Up-Front Experiment on Respondents’ Recording Behaviour in Payment Diaries: Evidence from Germany

By: Tobias Schmidt and  Susann Sieber  
Open Access
|Jun 2017

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Language: English
Page range: 427 - 454
Submitted on: Jan 1, 2016
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Accepted on: Jan 1, 2017
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Published on: Jun 12, 2017
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