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There are two different types of media bias. One bias, which we refer to as ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire … to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. The second bias, which we refer to as spin, reflects the outlet …. Whereas competition can eliminate the effect of ideological bias, it actually exaggerates the incentive to spin stories …
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almost all these papers ignore the bias in the estimated standard errors that serial correlation introduces. This is … serially correlated, which will exacerbate the bias in standard errors. To illustrate the severity of this issue, we randomly …
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almost all these papers ignore the bias in the estimated standard errors that serial correlation introduce4s. This is … serially correlated, which will exacerbate the bias in standard errors. To illustrate the severity of this issue, we randomly …
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There is growing concern about "algorithmic bias" - that predictive algorithms used in decision-making might bake in or … world in which humans make all the decisions. As these results run counter to prevailing wisdom on algorithmic bias, at a …
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generates some predictions that overlap with models of present-bias. Our model also generates the unique predictions that …
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This paper argues that the relation between temptations and the level of consumption plays a key role in explaining the observed behaviors of the poor. Temptation goods are defined to be the set of goods that generate positive utility for the self that consumes them, but not for any previous...
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