Innovations in statistical technology have sparked concerns about distributional impacts across categories such as race and gender. Theoretically, as statistical technology improves, distributional consequences depend on how changes in functional forms interact with cross-category distributions...

We scrape a comprehensive set of US firms’ privacy policies, and study them alongside firms' web data extraction behaviour. We find considerable and systematic variation in privacy policies along multiple dimensions including ease of access, length, readability, and clarity, both within and...

This short paper analyses the trade-offs associated with the deployment of contact tracing applications to support policy responses in the pandemic. In many jurisdictions, the government cannot force individuals to adopt such applications. We therefore analyze a simple model that highlights the...

Algorithms hold great potential to lower costs and democratize access to a wide variety of consumer services. How do humans interact with algorithms, and what are the major barriers to algorithmic adoption? We answer these questions using a structural model applied to unique data that captures...