Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

Software engineering is a field with strong geographic concentration, with Silicon Valley as the epitome of a tech … cluster. Yet, most studies on the productivity effects of agglomerations measure innovation with patent data, thus capturing … alternative proxy for productivity, complementing the literature by covering a broad range of software engineering. With user …

shift toward remote work. Using fine-grained data from the world's largest platform for open-source software development, we …