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Economics Of Discrimination

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The article was published on 2016-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1631 citations till now.

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Testing for Racial Discrimination in Police Searches of Motor Vehicles

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a threshold test to test for racial discrimination in motor vehicle searches using geographic variation in stop outcomes to infer the effective race-specific standards of evidence that officers apply when deciding whom to search, an approach they formalize with a hierarchical Bayesian latent variable model.
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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the Labor Market for Child Care Teachers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined racial and ethnic discrimination in the child care teacher hiring process and constructed a unique data set that combines a resume audit study of center-based providers with a f...
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Perceptions about gender-based discrimination in a selection of South African companies

Renier Steyn
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" and "uncertainty" in the context of health care, and propose a solution.
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Trade union responses to diversity management in France, Sweden and Germany

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined unions' influence on diversity discourses and the implications of these responses for equality agendas in continental Europe, using a qualitative research design based on documentary data analysis and semistructured interviews and a discursive institutionalism approach.
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Uncertainty and the Limits of Markets

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors lay out Frank Knight's critical assessment of real markets, which rely on the tacit agreement between a handful of "daring" entrepreneurs and the "risk-averse" masses to bear the uncertainties of business life in return for a substantially larger share of its direction and rewards.
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, which shows that women's work force interruptions and shorter hours remain significant in high skilled occupations, possibly due to compensating differentials.
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Algorithmic Decision Making and the Cost of Fairness

TL;DR: This work reformulate algorithmic fairness as constrained optimization: the objective is to maximize public safety while satisfying formal fairness constraints designed to reduce racial disparities, and also to human decision makers carrying out structured decision rules.
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The Measure and Mismeasure of Fairness: A Critical Review of Fair Machine Learning.

TL;DR: It is argued that it is often preferable to treat similarly risky people similarly, based on the most statistically accurate estimates of risk that one can produce, rather than requiring that algorithms satisfy popular mathematical formalizations of fairness.
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Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment

TL;DR: This paper found that applicants with distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical hosts with White names on the same platform. But, their results suggest that only a subset of hosts discriminate.
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Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study of Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads

TL;DR: The authors explored data from a field test of how an algorithm delivered ads promoting job opportunities in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, which was explicitly intended to be gender neutral.