Arbeitspapier
Externalities in knowledge production: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Do contributions to online content platforms induce a feedback loop of ever more user-generated content or will they discourage future contributions? To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment which added content to some pages in Wikipedia while leaving similar pages unchanged. We find that adding content has a negligible impact on the subsequent long-run growth of content. Our results have implications for information seeding and incentivizing contributions, implying that additional content does not generate sizable externalities, neither by inspiring nor by discouraging future contributions.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 19-007
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Open Source Products and Markets
Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
- Thema
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knowledge accumulation
user-generated content
Wikipedia
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hinnosaar, Marit
Hinnosaar, Toomas
Kummer, Michael
Slivko, Olga
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
- (wo)
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Mannheim
- (wann)
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2019
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
Datenpartner
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hinnosaar, Marit
- Hinnosaar, Toomas
- Kummer, Michael
- Slivko, Olga
- ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
Entstanden
- 2019
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