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Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2010

We argue that once we take into account the students' rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the intended beneficiary of affirmative action admission policies are made worse off could occur only if selective universities possess private information about students'...

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Changing Looks and Changing "Discrimination : " the Beauty of Economists

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010

I estimate the effects of changing an ascriptive characteristic on a market outcome while keeping the average amount of information unchanged. Taking advantage of candidates' multiple appearances in elections to office in a professional association and of the presence of different photographs...

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A Citation-Based Test for Discrimination at Economics and Finance Journals

Smart, Scott - 2015

Discrimination is notoriously difficult to document. Convincing tests for discrimination require good measures of the … to the task of measuring discrimination, copious bibliographic data on the impact of academic research make possible … tests of discrimination in the editorial process. This study develops a test for possible bias thorn; with respect to author …

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Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development, How Under-Servicing of Migrant Households Affects the Growth and Composition of Brazilian Cities

Feler, Leo - 2014

Localities in developed countries often restrict construction and population growth through regulations governing land usage, lot sizes, building heights, and frontage requirements. In developing countries, such policies are less effective because of the existence of unregulated, informal...

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Demand for Older Workers : What Do Economists Think? What are Firms Doing?

Allen, Steven G. - 2019

studies show age discrimination also plays a factor, especially for women. The paper concludes with suggestions for future …

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Value for Money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability

Leight, Jessica - 2018

Community targeting of vote payments — defined as the saturation of entire neighborhoods with cash prior to elections — is widespread in the developing world. In this paper, we utilize laboratory experiments conducted in the U.S. and Kenya to demonstrate that, relative to individual...

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On Fintech and Financial Inclusion

Philippon, Thomas - 2020

The cost of financial intermediation has declined in recent years thanks to technological progress and increased competition. I document this fact and I analyze two features of new financial technologies that have stirred controversy: returns to scale, and the use of big data and machine...

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Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms

Kleinberg, Jon - 2019

The law forbids discrimination. But the ambiguity of human decision-making often makes it extraordinarily hard for the … legal system to know whether anyone has actually discriminated. To understand how algorithms affect discrimination, we must … therefore also understand how they affect the problem of detecting discrimination. By one measure, algorithms are fundamentally …

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Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending

Dobbie, Will - 2018

This paper tests for bias in consumer lending decisions using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United Kingdom. We motivate our analysis using a simple model of bias in lending, which predicts that profits should be identical for loan applicants from different groups at the...

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Sorting or Steering : Experimental Evidence on the Economic Effects of Housing Discrimination

Christensen, Peter - 2018

Housing discrimination is illegal. However, paired-tester audit experiments have revealed evidence of discrimination in … Discrimination Study and micro-level data on key attributes of neighborhoods in 28 US cities, we find strong evidence of … discrimination in the characteristics of neighborhoods towards which individuals are steered. Conditional upon the characteristics of …

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