近日，产业经济研究院教师李禹燊（通讯作者,姓氏首字母排序）的合作论文“Peer Recognition, Badge Policies, and Content Contribution: An Empirical Study”（合作者：Xintong Han（Assistant Professor, Laval University）、Tong Wang（Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh）在经济学国际权威期刊Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization上发表。

In this study, we explore the effect of peer recognition on content creation within a prominent Chinese Question-and-Answer (Q&A) platform, specifically focusing on whether votes from peers encourage influencers to engage in providing more answers. Using panel regression models with instrumental variables, our analysis reveals that peer votes have a substantial positive effect on content production. Additionally, we investigate the consequences of two distinct badge policies, the “self-authentication”and the“best-answerer”badge, on content production. Our results demonstrate that while badges aid users in recognizing the quality of an influencer, badges with strong connotations may constrain content creation due to concerns about reputation management and privacy. As such, strategies that enhance platform traffic by promoting voting could be counterproductive if they exacerbate privacy and reputation worries. Our findings provide valuable insights into the role of peer recognition and badge policies in shaping content contribution, bearing crucial policy implications for the design of Q&A platforms.

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization是行为经济学领域顶级期刊，聚焦经济决策、组织、行为以及经济变革，旨在帮助理解人类认知、数字和信息特征如何影响经济组织和市场经济的运作，以及经济制度演变如何引致各种微观和宏观行为、发展和组织模式的变化。期刊也关注经济学与其他学科的交互研究，包括心理学、法学、人类学、社会学和金融学等。  

原文链接：https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268123003098?dgcid=author