# How Successful Are Open Source Contributions From Countries with Different Levels of Human Development?

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03716 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.03716/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 7 Dec 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [On Wasted Contributions: Understanding the Dynamics of Contributor-Abandoned Pull Requests](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.15447/) (2021)
- [Predicting the First Response Latency of Maintainers and Contributors in Pull Requests](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.07786/) (2023)
- [Understanding the Helpfulness of Stale Bot for Pull-based Development: An Empirical Study of 20 Large Open-Source Projects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.18150/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Are Brazilian developers less likely to have a contribution accepted than their peers from, say, the United Kingdom? In this paper we studied whether the developers' location relates to the outcome of a pull request. We curated the locations of 14k contributors who performed 44k pull requests to 20 open source projects. Our results indeed suggest that developers from countries with low human development indexes (HDI) not only perform a small fraction of the overall pull requests, but they also are the ones that face rejection the most.