Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173092 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 15-089
Version Description: 
This version: September 2017
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
We document a causal influence of online user-generated information on realworld economic outcomes. In particular, we conduct a randomized field experiment to test whether additional information on Wikipedia about cities affects tourists' choices of overnight visits. Our treatment of adding information to Wikipedia increases overnight visits by 9% during the tourist season. The impact comes mostly from improving the shorter and incomplete pages in Wikipedia.
Subjects: 
field experiment
user-generated content
Wikipedia
tourism industry
JEL: 
C93
H41
L17
L82
L83
L86
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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