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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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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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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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Do Employer Preferences Contribute to Sticky Floors

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder, and test whether hiring discrimination based on gender is heterogeneous by the promotion characteristics of the selected jobs.
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Getting Grey Hairs in the Labour Market: An Alternative Experiment on Age Discrimination

TL;DR: In this paper, a new field experimental approach for measuring age discrimination in hiring is presented, in which candidates' ages are randomly assigned within pairs of fictitious resumes that are sent to real vacancies, and activities undertaken by the older candidates during their additional life years between these pairs.
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Responsible Investing: The ESG-Efficient Frontier

TL;DR: The authors proposed a theory in which each stock's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) score plays two roles: 1) providing information about firm fundamentals and 2) affecting investor preferences.
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Financial advice and bank profits

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a unique data set from a large retail bank containing internal managerial accounting data on revenues and costs per client to analyze how banks and their financial advisors generate profits with customers.