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differences in entrepreneurship... …
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In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980sin the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK.Data on random samples of twenty million US workers are examined taken from the BasicMonthly files of the CPS...
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Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and thedifferences in self …-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little isknown about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to …
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Predictive AI is increasingly used to guide decisions on agents. I show that even a bias-neutral predictive AI can … potentially amplify exogenous (human) bias in settings where the predictive AI represents a cost-adjusted precision gain to … belief updating, expected victims of bias become less likely to be saved by randomness under more precise predictions. An …
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Predictive AI is increasingly used to guide decisions on agents. I show that even a bias-neutral predictive AI can … potentially amplify exogenous (human) bias in settings where the predictive AI represents a cost-adjusted precision gain to … belief updating, expected victims of bias become less likely to be saved by randomness under more precise predictions. An …
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We explore whether teachers have different predictions for the examination performance of ethnic minority students relative to White British students. We exploit an exogenous change in assessment methods to compare grades based on teacher predictions to grades received through actual blindly...
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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...
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to study giving behaviours under conditions of implicit bias. I test this model by implementing a novel laboratory …. These results are indicative that implicit bias fails to overcome selfish interests and thus the IAT lacks external validity. …
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This paper examines the impact of in-group bias on the internal dynamics of a police department. Prior studies have … documented racial bias in policing, but little is known about bias against officers due to lack of available data. We construct a … in-group favoritism. Our findings suggest departments should focus on policies that address in-group bias due to its …
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Designing technical systems to be resistant to bias and discrimination represents vital new terrain for researchers …, policymakers, and the anti-discrimination project more broadly. We consider bias and discrimination in the context of popular … mitigating interpersonal bias. We argue that focusing on platform design can reveal opportunities to reshape troubling patterns …
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