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Economics Of Discrimination
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Discriminating Behavior: Evidence from teachers’ grading bias
Bruno Ferman,Luiz Felipe Fontes +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that teachers inflate test scores of better-behaved students, and deduct points from worse-behaving ones, and that teachers' decision to approve pupils that are bellow the passing cutoff grade is influenced by how these students behaved in class.
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Borrowers from a different shore: Asian outcomes in the U.S. mortgage market
TL;DR: This paper found that Asians face challenges in mortgage markets in ways that may be unique as compared to other minority groups, and after accounting for loan and borrower characteristics, Asians have denial rates as high as other groups.
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Language-based discrimination and its role for ethnic inequalities in the educational system and the labor market
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Visibilizando el techo de cristal en la Universidad del Cauca: un análisis de discriminación laboral de género
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative analysis of the glass ceiling effect at the University of Cauca in Colombia is presented, based on the theories of taste for discrimination, and the results indicated the existence of the ceiling glass and the low probability of holding management positions by female professors.
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Team performance and race: evidence from the English and French national soccer teams
TL;DR: This article examined the performance of the men's senior national soccer teams of England and France between the years 1996 and 2011 and found no definitive evidence that the racial composition of the national teams exerts an influence on match outcome for either country over the period reviewed.
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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.
Sam Corbett-Davies,Sharad Goel +1 more
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
Anja Lambrecht,Catherine Tucker +1 more
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.