@inproceedings{48d2dabab95f42bfbc8e27da18d4cf22,
title = "Do Financial Incentives Induce More Online Participatory Behaviors?",
abstract = "Online community-based Question and Answer (Q&A) websites is popular in recent years. The main challenge for Q&A websites is how to motivate participations. Using a natural experimental dataset collected from a Chinese Q&A site, we apply difference-in-differences model with propensity score matching to evaluate the effect of emergency of a paid-for knowledge sharing activity on changes in the free sharing behaviors and social activities. Our results show that the paid-for activity allows users to share more knowledge freely and build more social ties in the site. The results suggest that the financial incentive can increase users{\textquoteright} participatory behaviors significantly.",
keywords = "Answer website, Financial incentive, Knowledge sharing activity, Online participatory behaviors, Online question, Social activity",
author = "Zhijun Yan and Lini Kuang and He Huang and Han Yang",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780996683159",
series = "ICIS 2017: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation",
publisher = "Association for Information Systems",
booktitle = "ICIS 2017",
address = "United States",
note = "38th International Conference on Information Systems: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation, ICIS 2017 ; Conference date: 10-12-2017 Through 13-12-2017",
}