[Air-L] incentives

[Dennis Redeker]

Hi Lauri,

This is a really good question. My own experience relates to research in very remote locations, including remote islands.

There are various services to transfer money we have used for incentives, including Western Union or Wise (used to be called TransferWise). This may require quite a bit of effort per person you want to give the incentive to. For us, it meant to increase the amount of the incentive, not the number or winners (in a raffle), as to limit the rather tedious bureaucracy. Generally: More winners*countries, less scalability.

In less remote places (say, not a small island in the Pacific) a gift card for a service/retailer of your winner‘s choice might be just as good (and likely easier for you to procure). 

Best, 
Dennis

> On 23. Mar 2021, at 00:59, Lauri Goldkind <goldkind at fordham.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello Researchers,
> 
> I was wondering how people handle offereing a gift card incentive when a
> project is global in scope?
> We are planning on offering a $50 USD gift card but then I realized that
> one cannot use a US amazon or staples card outside of the US (yes,
> elementary, I realize).
> 
> I wonder if any of you have offered a cash or cash-like incentive and how
> you distributed it to out-of-country participants.
> 
> Thoughts appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> Lauri
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