El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2024
contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the … to causally identify OSS activity driven by career concerns. We observe OSS activity of users who move for a job to be … shows signaling incentives motivate first-time OSS contributions. Our findings suggest that signaling incentives on private …