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Mentoring and Diversity
Athey, Susan; Avery, Christopher; Zemsky, Peter B. - 2013
This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model of a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...
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Single crossing properties and the existence of pure strategy nash equilibria in games of incomplete information
Athey, Susan - 2000
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Investment and information value for a risk averse firm
Athey, Susan - 2000
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Single crossing properties and the existence of pure strategy equilibria in games of incomplete information
Athey, Susan - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 69 (2001) 4, pp. 861-889
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Investment and Information Value for a Risk Averse Firm
Athey, Susan - 2013
according to their ex ante information value. Finally, we provide conditions under which it is possible to compare the incentive … to acquire information across agents with different risk preferences, and we identify a class of utility functions for … which agents who are less risk averse purchase more information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036961
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Mentoring and Diversity
Athey, Susan; Avery, Christopher N.; Zemsky, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model o a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774621
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Mentoring and Diversity
Avery, Christopher; Athey, Susan; Zemsky, Peter - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 4, pp. 765-786
We study how diversity evolves at a firm with entry-level and upper-level employees who vary in ability and "type" (gender or ethnicity). The ability of entry-level employees is increased by mentoring. An employ receives more mentoring when more upper-level employees have the same type. Optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005571563
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Smiles in profiles: improving fairness and efficiency using estimates of user preferences in online marketplaces
Athey, Susan; Karlan, Dean; Palikot, Emil; Yuan, Yuan - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013365990
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Smiles in Profiles : Improving Fairness and Efficiency Using Estimates of User Preferences in Online Marketplaces
Athey, Susan; Karlan, Dean; Palikot, Emil; Yuan, Yuan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Online platforms often face challenges being both fair (i.e., non-discriminatory) and efficient (i.e., maximizing revenue). Using computer vision algorithms and observational data from a microlending marketplace, we find that choices made by borrowers creating online profiles impact both of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462682
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Single Crossing Properties and the Existence of Pure Strategy Equilibria in Games of Incomplete Information
Athey, Susan - 2013
This paper derives sufficient conditions for a class of games of incomplete information, such as first price auctions … private information about his own type (for example, a bidder's value for an object of a firm's marginal cost of production … values; a class of pricing games with incomplete information about costs; a class of all-pay auction games; and a class of …
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