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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Statistical Discrimination"”.
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Topics in statistical discrimination
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Three Essays on Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
… of three essays studying employer learning and statistical discrimination of young workers in the U.S. labor market. The first chapter outlines the dissertation by discussing the motivations, methods, and research findings.<br /><br />Chapter two develops a framework that nests both symmetric …
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Topics in dimension reduction and missing data in statistical discrimination.
… a linear dimension reduction (LDR) procedure for statistical discriminant analysis for multiple multivariate skew-normal populations. First, we define the multivariate skew-normal distribution and give several applications of its use. We also provide marginal and conditional properties of the MSN …
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Essays In Mortgage Markets And Public Investment Cycles
… first two chapters on mortgage markets show that statistical discrimination and market power derived by lenders from mortgage search costs of borrowers in the US have a large welfare cost for a borrower and are important sources of refinancing inaction. The third chapter shows that a …
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Essays in Experimental Economics: Discrimination and Education
… University Essays in Experimental Economics: Discrimination and Education Nikoloz Kudashvili Dissertation Prague, August 2022 Abstract In the first chapter, I study the sources of discrimination. Preference-based discrimination is usually deep-seated and takes a long time to be dealt with. By …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… employer learning in a labor market with dynamic statistical discrimination on the basis of time-varying worker characteristics such as marital status. In the second essay, I explore the relationship between workplace flexibility and worker and occupation characteristics. These essays provide …
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Experimental Detection and Quantitative Interrogation of Damage in a Jointed Composite Structure
… the damage index, in addition to a rule-based, statistical discrimination method was employed to detect, localize and quantify damage due to bolt torque loss in the structure. The methodology accurately detected the presence of damage within the joint, localized the damage within the structures …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… be biased against poor handwriting, resulting in discrimination against students with poor handwriting. Chapter one is the first to estimate the grading bias and decompose it to uncover its sources. I find that the bias alters 1.9% of high school admission outcomes and contributes to 70% of the …
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Aging and the labor market
… I find no evidence to support taste-based discrimination as a reason for this differential and some evidence to support statistical discrimination. The second chapter examines more closely one of the possible reason for this differential treatment. Older workers may cost employers more in …
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Essays in applied microeconomics : signaling, marriage hazard rates, and ability sorting
… performance evaluation. I adapt a model of statistical discrimination to incorporate a signal that indicates whether previous performance exceeded some criterion, and I test the model's predictions using a regression discontinuity design and a policy change at the United States Military …
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Essays in development economics and political economy
… papers and online job sites. We find evidence of discrimination against Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Scheduled Castes (SCs) in the call-center industry but no corresponding results for these or any other groups (including Muslims) in software jobs. We do however find that having a …
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Software for Manipulating and Embedding Data Interrogation Algorithms Into Integrated Systems
… the catalog with work in feature extraction and statistical discrimination. The client software also includes methods for interfacing with the node software over an Internet connection. Once connected, the client software can upload a developed process to the integrated sensing and processing …
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Three essays on labor market disparities and inequality
… 3 focuses specifically on studying the role of discrimination in generating disparities in the outcomes. Using 1998–-2018 U.S. data, we find that differences in initial human capital, returns to experience, and job separation rates account for most of the demographic disparities; wedges in …
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Selected topics in statistical discriminant analysis.
… consists of three selected topics in statistical discriminant analysis: dimension reduction, regularization methods, and imputation methods. In Chapter 2 we first derive a new linear dimension-reduction method to determine a low-dimensional hyperplane that preserves or nearly preserves …
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Essays on labor market inequality
… Building on the canonical Phelps (1972) model of statistical discrimination, I argue that this persistence is in part driven by affirmative action inducing employers to increase the precision with which they screen potential employees. I then provide supporting evidence. In chapter 2, I study the …
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Essays on the economics of labor markets
… points. We interpret these findings in a statistical discrimination model in which credit report data provides employers with a higher precision signal of workers' skills, compared to employers' prior beliefs and knowledge about workers' skills; this signal has particularly strong effects …
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Methods to Improve Fairness and Accuracy in Machine Learning, with Applications to Financial Algorithms
… extends the canonical economic concept of statistical discrimination to algorithmic decision-making. I show that predictive uncertainty often leads algorithms to systematically disadvantage groups with lower-mean outcomes, assigning them smaller true and false positive rates than their …
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Essays on the Economics of Mental Illness and Belief Formation
… causal effects. In the second chapter, I study discrimination against people with common mental illnesses in labor market settings -- one important mechanism through which mental illness may (indirectly) cause lower employment and income. In an online experiment, I find that people pay to avoid …
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Essays on household finance and credit market regulation
… conclusive. We interpret these findings in a statistical discrimination model in which credit report data, more for blacks than for other groups, send a high-precision signal relative to the precision of employers' priors. The third chapter (co-authored with Sydnee Caldwell and Daniel …
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Three Essays in Urban Policy
… generally consistent with theory of agent-based statistical discrimination. </p> <p>Chapter 2 presents an experiment designed to influence rental agent behavior to increase equal treatment in rental housing. The purpose is to test whether property owners and rental agents will change their …