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This article calls for a greater integration of moral psychology and political economy. While these disciplines were … and substantiate theories from moral psychology at scale or in the wild. To illustrate this, I present two case studies of … recent economics research on prominent ideas in moral psychology. First, the theory that morality is ultimately economically …
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governments or market institutions provide the services. Sweden and the United States are on opposite ends of this spectrum. After … discussing the problems with adverse selection and moral hazard that bedevil private and public social welfare organizations, I …
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When race is not directly observed, regulators and analysts commonly predict it using algorithms based on last name and address. In small business lending--where regulators assess fair lending law compliance using the Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) algorithm--we document large...
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Algorithms (in some form) are already widely used in the criminal justice system. We draw lessons from this experience for what is to come for the rest of society as machine learning diffuses. We find economists and other social scientists have a key role to play in shaping the impact of...
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Using a vignette-based survey experiment on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, we measure how people's assessments of the fairness of race-based hiring decisions vary with the motivation and circumstances surrounding the discriminatory act and the races of the parties involved. Regardless of their...
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these mortality rates. Our findings show that social factors such as organized religion can play an important role in …
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~22% who report to do so in surveys. The number of occasional vs. frequent attenders varies substantially by religion. I …
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This study uses data from Academic Analytics to examine gender differences in promotion to associate professor in economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for cumulative publications, citations, grants and grant...
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Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was...
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Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....
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