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presents results of an experiment in revealing unconscious bias. …The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and … stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and empirical research in economics, and the literature …
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While the existence of the in-group bias is a well-researched phenomenon in Economics, the established findings are of … is to shed more light on whether intergroup discrimination manifests itself differently in a loss compared to a gain … domain (corresponding to periods of economic upturns and downturns). We run an online experiment with natural identities, in …
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model, and then apply the framework to identify novel implications of partially naive present bias. In many stable …
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Gneezy et al. (2012) uses attribution theory from the psychology literature to argue that when the object of … discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or … intensifies the emotional response to the object of discrimination. This paper builds on this insight based on the understanding …
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understand bias and discrimination as mechanisms and potential points of intervention. …Most definitions of algorithmic bias and fairness encode decisionmaker interests, such as profits, rather than the … interests of disadvantaged groups (e.g., racial minorities): Bias is defined as a deviation from profit maximization. Future …
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We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …
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and socio-economically, we interpret opposition as arising from group identity structure (out-group discrimination) or …
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