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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.
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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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Discrimination in Access to Housing: A Test on Urban Areas in Metropolitan France
TL;DR: The authors measured the extent of discrimination in access to rental housing in the private sector using a test in the 50 largest urban areas in Metropolitan France, covering several grounds of discrimination: age, origin, place of residence and combinations thereof.
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Economics of Discrimination: A Brief Review of Literature
TL;DR: The authors summarizes the key contributions on theoretical literature of economic discrimination, focusing on three theories of discrimination: (1) neo-classical, which includes non-stochastic and stochastic versions; (2) institutional; and (3) Marxian.
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Audits as Evidence: Experiments, Ensembles, and Enforcement
TL;DR: The results suggest illegal labor market discrimination can be reliably monitored with relatively small modifications to existing audit designs and suggest significant employer heterogeneity in discriminatory behavior.
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Characteristics of the Most Productive U.S. Sociology Faculty and Departments: Institution Type, Gender, and Journal Concentration
TL;DR: This paper examined the characteristics of the sociology faculty and departments that ranked highest on any of four measures of publishing productivity over the last decade, using data for a sample of 2,132 individuals.
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Self-Identified Sexual Orientation and the Lesbian Earnings Differential
TL;DR: This paper found evidence of a sizeable wage penalty for self-identified lesbians in 2008 and 2010 and showed that using common behavioral proxies for sexual orientation overstates the earnings of lesbians in some years, but understates it in other years.