| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22124 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22124 |
| Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy | |
| Edward L. Glaeser; Andrew Hillis; Scott Duke Kominers; Michael Luca | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-03-28 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Can open tournaments improve the quality of city services? The proliferation of big data makes it possible to use predictive analytics to better target services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire consultants, but a cheaper alternative is to crowdsource competence by making data public and offering a reward for the best algorithm. This paper provides a simple model suggesting that open tournaments dominate consulting contracts when cities have a reasonable tolerance for risk and when there is enough labor with low opportunity costs of time. We also illustrate how tournaments can be successful, by reporting on a Boston-based restaurant hygiene prediction tournament that we helped coordinate. The Boston tournament yielded algorithms—at low cost—that proved reasonably accurate when tested “out-of-sample” on hygiene inspections occurring after the algorithms were submitted. We draw upon our experience in working with Boston to provide practical suggestions for governments and other organizations seeking to run prediction tournaments in the future. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Economics of Information ; Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies ; Other ; Accounting, Marketing, and Personnel ; Regional and Urban Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22124 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579798 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Edward L. Glaeser,Andrew Hillis,Scott Duke Kominers,et al. Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy. 2016. |
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| w22124.pdf（231KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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