Externalities in Knowledge Production: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
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| author | Hinnosaar, Marit Hinnosaar, Toomas Kummer, Michael Slivko, Olga |
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| contents | Are there positive or negative externalities in knowledge production? Do current contributions to knowledge production increase or decrease the future growth of knowledge? We use a randomized field experiment, which added relevant content to some pages in Wikipedia while leaving similar pages unchanged. We find that the addition of 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 by inspiring nor discouraging future contributions. |
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| spellingShingle | Externalities in Knowledge Production: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment Hinnosaar, Marit Hinnosaar, Toomas Kummer, Michael Slivko, Olga General Economics Economics Computers and Society Computer Science and Game Theory Are there positive or negative externalities in knowledge production? Do current contributions to knowledge production increase or decrease the future growth of knowledge? We use a randomized field experiment, which added relevant content to some pages in Wikipedia while leaving similar pages unchanged. We find that the addition of 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 by inspiring nor discouraging future contributions. |
| title | Externalities in Knowledge Production: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment |
| topic | General Economics Economics Computers and Society Computer Science and Game Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01861 |