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Economics Of Discrimination
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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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Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap: Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used longitudinal data on the hourly wages of Portuguese workers matched with balance sheet information for rms to show that the wages of both men and women contain rm-specic premiums that are strongly correlated with employer productivity.
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