Falling from Digital Grace: Participation in Online Software Contests Following Loss of Status

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dc.contributor.authorDeodhar, Swanand
dc.contributor.authorBabar, Yash
dc.contributor.authorBurtch, Gordon
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-03T00:27:19Z
dc.date.available2019-01-03T00:27:19Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-08
dc.description.abstractWe focus on the effects of status loss on decisions to participate in subsequent contests in online coding platform. We advance the relevant literature in several ways. First, by considering the effects of status loss on resource expenditure, we depart from the prior status literature, which has predominantly looked at performance implications of the status loss. Second, because of the voluntary nature of online contests, we demonstrate how the effects of status loss manifest when permanent exit or abstention is possible. This aspect marks another departure from situations common to the prior work, wherein work demands persist regardless of status changes. Lastly, recognizing that status changes may be endogenous to one's past resource expenditure, we study exogenous variation in status, exploiting a natural experiment wherein status assignments were adjusted overnight by the platform operator, in a manner completely independent of individuals' prior activities, resulting in sudden loss of status
dc.format.extent8 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2019.540
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-2-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/59883
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCrowd-based Platforms
dc.subjectInternet and the Digital Economy
dc.subjectNatural experiment, Online contests, Status loss, Online platform, Resource expenditure
dc.titleFalling from Digital Grace: Participation in Online Software Contests Following Loss of Status
dc.typeConference Paper
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