Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Do Economic Crises Affect Content Generation on Wikipedia?

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Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Do Economic Crises Affect Content Generation on Wikipedia?
Authors
Michael E. Kummer
Olga Slivko
Xiaoquan Zhang
Publication date
2015
DOI
10.2139/ssrn.2710625
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Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Do Economic Crises Affect Content Generation on Wikipedia? - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Michael E. Kummer, Olga Slivko and Xiaoquan Zhang.

Overview

In this paper, authors address the impact of surging unemployment on online public good provision. Specifically, authors ask how drastically increased unemployment affects voluntary contributions of content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Authors put together a monthly country-level data set, which combines country specific economic outcomes with data on contributions to the online encyclopedia. As a source of exogenous variation in the economic state authors use the fact that European countries were affected by the financial crisis in the US in September 2008 with different intensity. For European countries, authors find that the economic downturn is associated with more viewership, which channels higher participation of volunteers in Wikipedia expressed in editing activity and content growth. Authors provide evidence for increased information search online or online learning as a potential channel of the change in public goods provision, which is a potentially important side effect of economic downturn.

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Kummer, Michael E.; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Xiaoquan. (2015). "[[Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Do Economic Crises Affect Content Generation on Wikipedia?]]". ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2710625.

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{{cite journal |last1=Kummer |first1=Michael E. |last2=Slivko |first2=Olga |last3=Zhang |first3=Xiaoquan |title=Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Do Economic Crises Affect Content Generation on Wikipedia? |date=2015 |doi=10.2139/ssrn.2710625 |url=https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Economic_Downturn_and_Volunteering:_Do_Economic_Crises_Affect_Content_Generation_on_Wikipedia? |journal=ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research}}

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Kummer, Michael E.; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Xiaoquan. (2015). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Economic_Downturn_and_Volunteering:_Do_Economic_Crises_Affect_Content_Generation_on_Wikipedia?">Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Do Economic Crises Affect Content Generation on Wikipedia?</a>&quot;. ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2710625.