Plausibly Exogenous [1320] - Open Source (09/12/2023)
LHS Variable
Open source
RHS Variable
Monetary motivation
Source of Exogenous Variation
The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled organizations and individuals alike to reward developers for their open source work on the platform
- Conti, Gupta, Guzman, and Roche (2023), “Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source: Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program”