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The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries
Miguel, Edward; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim …-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …
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Women's health and nutrition : making a difference
Tinker, Anne G. (contributor) - 1994 - 1. print.
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The Changing Relationship between Bodyweight and Longevity in High- and Low-Income Countries
Kopinska, Joanna; Atella, Vincenzo; Bhattacharya, Jay; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Standard measures of bodyweight (overweight and obese, for example) fail to reflect technological progress over time - and in particular, recent progress disproportionately promoting longevity at higher bodyweights (and differences in access to it). This paper builds on the pioneering work of...
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Algorithmic Recommendations and Human Discretion
Angelova, Victoria; Dobbie, Will; Yang, Crystal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
new quasi-experimental tools to measure the impact of human discretion over an algorithm on the accuracy of decisions … judges in our setting underperform the algorithm when they make a discretionary override, with most making override decisions … that are no better than random. Yet the remaining 10% of judges outperform the algorithm in terms of both accuracy and …
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Artificial Intelligence and Pricing : The Impact of Algorithm Design
Asker, John; Fershtman, Chaim; Pakes, Ariel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The behavior of artificial intelligences algorithms (AIAs) is shaped by how they learn about their environment. We compare the prices generated by AIAs that use different learning protocols when there is market interaction. Asynchronous learning occurs when the AIA only learns about the return...
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Competition in Pricing Algorithms
Brown, Zach Y.; MacKay, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Increasingly, retailers have access to better pricing technology, especially in online markets. Using hourly data from five major online retailers, we show that retailers set prices at regular intervals that differ across firms. In addition, faster firms appear to use automated pricing rules...
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Competitive Model Selection in Algorithmic Targeting
Iyer, Ganesh; Ke, T. Tony - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
algorithm in terms of model complexity or the number of predictors to accommodate. Each firm then appoints a data analyst that … uses the chosen algorithm to estimate demand for multiple consumer segments, based on which, it devises a targeting policy …
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Automating Automaticity : How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias
Agan, Amanda Y.; Davenport, Diag; Ludwig, Jens; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
You May Know (people choose friends fairly deliberately). We find significant out-group bias in the News Feed algorithm (e … detectable bias in the PYMK algorithm. Together, these results suggest a need to rethink how large-scale algorithms use data on …
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Data Privacy and Algorithmic Inequality
Liu, Zhuang; Sockin, Michael; Xiong, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper develops a foundation for a consumer's preference for data privacy by linking it to the desire to hide behavioral vulnerabilities. Data sharing with digital platforms enhances the matching efficiency for standard consumption goods, but also exposes individuals with self-control issues...
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Self-Preferencing at Amazon : Evidence from Search Rankings
Farronato, Chiara; Fradkin, Andrey; MacKay, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study whether Amazon engages in self-preferencing on its marketplace by favoring its own brands (e.g., Amazon Basics) in search. To address this question, we collect new micro-level consumer search data using a custom browser extension installed by a panel of study participants. Using this...
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