Sponsored Tasks and Solver Participation in Crowdsourcing Contests

This paper finds that sponsorship does not uniformly increase contest participation: its effect depends on prize size and the ability and experience of potential solvers.

Recommended citation: Mo, J., Sarkar, S., and Chen, J. (2026). "Sponsored Tasks and Solver Participation in Crowdsourcing Contests." Information Systems Research, 37(2), 693–715.
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