Chat More and Contribute Better: An Empirical Study of a Knowledge-Sharing Community

The authors thank Brad Greenwood, Aija Leiponen, Ben Leyden, Joshua Gans, and Abhishek Nagaraj as well as seminar and conference participants at Cornell University, Purdue University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Mannheim, Virginia Tech, NBER Summer Institute, the Open and User Innovation Conference, the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, the Conference on Information Systems and Technology, the ZEW Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies, and the INFORMS annual meeting for helpful comments and suggestions. The authors thank Stack Overflow for providing essential data. All opinions and errors are the authors’ alone.