sebfest / leadership_in_the_gig_economy

Data and scripts for the paper "Motivation and Incentives in an Online Labor Market"

Data and scripts: How (not) to motivate online workers: Two controlled field experiments on leadership in the gig economy

Sebastian Fest, Ola Kvaløy, Petra Nieken, Anja Schöttner

Description

This project folder contains data and scripts to reproduce the results presented in the paper. Scripts are available as Jupyter Notebooks and are stored in the notebook subfolder. You can directly open and read the scripts by clicking on them. If you want to work interactively with the project files, then you need to either clone this repository and install all python dependencies from the requirements.txt file, or, you can turn this repository into a collection of interactive notebooks using the following link:

Index

1. Study 1:

   1. Creating workable dataset
   2. Sample characterisitcs and sample balance
   3. Intervention timer
   4. Treatment effects on quantity
   5. Treatment effects on quality
   6. Relationship quantity-quality
   7. Additional figures and tables

2. Study 2:

   1. Creating workable dataset
   2. Sample characterisitcs and sample balance
   3. Intervention timer
   4. Treatment effects on quantity
   5. Treatment effects on quality
   6. Relationship quantity-quality