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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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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the emergence of cooperation in a heterogeneous population that is divided into two cultural groups, and they find that when cultural intolerance is sufficiently strong, homophily emerges together with perfect correlation between culture and behavior.
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The Impact of Judicial Elections in the Sentencing of Black Crime

TL;DR: This paper explored the possibility that criminal court judges engage in discriminatory sentencing in response to judicial elections and found that incarceration rates rise by 2.4 percentage points in the final six months of the election cycle, but only for black, not white felons.
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Эпистемические Интервенции: В Поиске Новых Моделей Кросс-Дисциплинарного Взаимодействия (Epistemic Intervention: In Search of New Models of Cross-Disciplinary Interactions)

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the effect of gender stereotypes on women's sexual behavior in Russian and discuss the importance of gender diversity in the context of women's reproductive health and sexual health.
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Testing for Statistical Discrimination based on Gender

TL;DR: This paper developed a model which incorporates the two most commonly cited strands of the literature on statistical discrimination, namely screening discrimination and stereotyping, to provide empirical evidence of statistical discrimination based on gender in the labour market.
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Understanding the mechanisms of ethnic discrimination: a field experiment on discrimination against Turks, Syrians and Americans in the Berlin shared housing market

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the scope and causes of ethnic discrimination against applicants with different ethnic backgrounds in the German housing market and propose a solution to the problem of discrimination.