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=== Academic References ===
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<p style="margin:0">Enjolras, Bernard. 2002. “Does the Commercialization of Voluntary Organizations 'Crowd out' Voluntary Work?.” <span style="font-style:italic;">Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics</span> 73:375-398. <span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi/10.1111/1467-8292.00197&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Does%20the%20Commercialization%20of%20Voluntary%20Organizations%20'Crowd%20out'%20Voluntary%20Work%3F&amp;rft.jtitle=Annals%20of%20Public%20and%20Cooperative%20Economics&amp;rft.volume=73&amp;rft.issue=3&amp;rft.aufirst=Bernard&amp;rft.aulast=Enjolras&amp;rft.au=Bernard%20Enjolras&amp;rft.date=2002&amp;rft.pages=375-398"></span>[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118931831/abstract]</p>
 
<p style="margin:1.1em 0 0 0">Frey, Bruno S., and Reto Jegen. 2001. “Motivation Crowding Theory.” <span style="font-style:italic;">Journal of Economic Surveys</span> 15:589-611. <span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi/10.1111/1467-6419.00150&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Motivation%20Crowding%20Theory&amp;rft.jtitle=Journal%20of%20Economic%20Surveys&amp;rft.volume=15&amp;rft.issue=5&amp;rft.aufirst=Bruno%20S.&amp;rft.aulast=Frey&amp;rft.au=Bruno%20S.%20Frey&amp;rft.au=Reto%20Jegen&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.pages=589-611"></span>[http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-6419.00150][http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=203330]</p>
<p style="margin:1.1em 0 0 0">Frey, B. S., and L. Goette. 1999. “Does Pay Motivate Volunteers?.”.[http://www.iew.unizh.ch/wp/iewwp007.pdf]</p>
<p style="margin:1.1em 0 0 0">Gneezy, Uri, and Aldo Rustichini. 2000. “Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All.” <span style="font-style:italic;">Quarterly Journal of Economics</span> 115:791-810. <span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi/10.1162/003355300554917&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Pay%20Enough%20or%20Don't%20Pay%20at%20All&amp;rft.jtitle=Quarterly%20Journal%20of%20Economics&amp;rft.volume=115&amp;rft.issue=3&amp;rft.aufirst=Uri&amp;rft.aulast=Gneezy&amp;rft.au=Uri%20Gneezy&amp;rft.au=Aldo%20Rustichini&amp;rft.date=2000&amp;rft.pages=791-810"></span>[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/003355300554917]</p>
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Motivation crowding theory is an phenomena in economics that explains how, for example, paid labor can undermine intrinsic motivation. In particular, I am interested in the effect that crowding out has on free and open source software projects where large number of contributions may come from volunteers. Unintuitively, it seems that paying people to do a task may reduce the amount of work completed.

Web pages that discuss the topic include (and in particular its relevance to free software and other information commons):

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