Crowdsourcing Digital Public Goods | A Field Experiment on Metadata Contributions
Linfeng visited SUFE to give a talk on his job market paper “Crowdsourcing Digital Public Goods | A Field Experiment on Metadata Contributions”. He interviewed for School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence though I think he is more of an economist. Abstract This study explores why people choose to contribute metadata, which is data about data. Using a field experiment conducted with more than 3,000 authors of AEA journal articles, our control message reduces the uncertainty about the future value of metadata, whereas those from the treatment conditions additionally make the private or social benefits of metadata salient....