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Potential Financial Payoffs to End-User Developers

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End-User Development (IS-EUD 2017)

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What are the benefits of end-user development (EUD) to the average worker? This paper provides one quantitative answer to this question by using historical data to analyze the relationship between worker earnings and two forms of EUD. The analysis indicates that American workers who used both spreadsheets/databases, and who also each did programming, earned on the order of 10% more than peers who did neither of these activities.

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  1. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Christopher Scaffidi

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  1. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Simone Barbosa

  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Panos Markopoulos

  3. C.N.R. - ISTI , Pisa, Italy

    Fabio Paternò

  4. City, University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Simone Stumpf

  5. Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Stefano Valtolina

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Scaffidi, C. (2017). Potential Financial Payoffs to End-User Developers. In: Barbosa, S., Markopoulos, P., Paternò, F., Stumpf, S., Valtolina, S. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10303. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58735-6_13

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