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    The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities

    We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement... View Details
    • 2024
    • Conference Paper

    Fair Machine Unlearning: Data Removal while Mitigating Disparities

    By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Flavio Calmon, Jiaqi Ma and Alex Oesterling
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    Lakkaraju, Himabindu, Flavio Calmon, Jiaqi Ma, and Alex Oesterling. "Fair Machine Unlearning: Data Removal while Mitigating Disparities." 2024.
    • 30 Jan 2024
    • News

    STS Survey Identifies Stark Gender Disparities in Compensation

    • 2022
    • Article

    Fairness via Explanation Quality: Evaluating Disparities in the Quality of Post hoc Explanations

    By: Jessica Dai, Sohini Upadhyay, Ulrich Aivodji, Stephen Bach and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As post hoc explanation methods are increasingly being leveraged to explain complex models in high-stakes settings, it becomes critical to ensure that the quality of the resulting explanations is consistently high across all subgroups of a population. For instance, it... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Mathematical Methods; Research; Analytics and Data Science
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    Dai, Jessica, Sohini Upadhyay, Ulrich Aivodji, Stephen Bach, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Fairness via Explanation Quality: Evaluating Disparities in the Quality of Post hoc Explanations." Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (2022): 203–214.
    • 28 Jun 2020
    • News

    The Disparate Racial Impact of Requiring a College Degree

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    Gender Disparities in Compensation of Practicing Cardiothoracic Surgeons: Analyzing the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Compensation Survey

    By: Cherie P. Erkmen, Anastasiia K. Tompkins, Shanda Blackmon, Larry R. Kaiser, Susanna Gallani, Jennifer C. Romano, Thomas MacGillivray and Michael J. Mack
    BACKGROUND: Gender-based pay disparity in compensation is widespread. In cardiothoracic surgery, women earn between 71-84% of men’s salaries at comparable ranks. Limited data exist on how factors like subspecialty, practice type, and work efforts contribute to these... View Details
    Keywords: Gender; Compensation and Benefits; Equality and Inequality; Experience and Expertise; Health Industry
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    Erkmen, Cherie P., Anastasiia K. Tompkins, Shanda Blackmon, Larry R. Kaiser, Susanna Gallani, Jennifer C. Romano, Thomas MacGillivray, and Michael J. Mack. "Gender Disparities in Compensation of Practicing Cardiothoracic Surgeons: Analyzing the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Compensation Survey." Annals of Thoracic Surgery (in press). (Pre-published online June 19, 2025.)
    • 12 Aug 2020
    • News

    Bristol Myers pledges to spend $300M on addressing racial, health disparities

    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    The Cost of Banking Deserts: Racial Disparities in Access to PPP Lenders and their Equilibrium Implications

    By: Jeffrey Wang and David Hao Zhang
    Many government support programs for small businesses are designed to pass through banks and credit unions. However, this poses barriers for minority communities that are less connected to financial institutions for obtaining this support. Using the latest program for... View Details
    Keywords: Banking Deserts; Minority Communities; Paycheck Protection Program; Banks and Banking; Small Business; Demographics; Race; Government and Politics; Programs
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    Wang, Jeffrey, and David Hao Zhang. "The Cost of Banking Deserts: Racial Disparities in Access to PPP Lenders and their Equilibrium Implications." Working Paper, December 2020.
    • 20 Apr 2021
    • News

    Combatting Inequality: The Tax Code and Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities

    • 21 Aug 2020
    • News

    Covid-19 Is Intensifying The Disparities Between Men And Women In Science

    • February 2024
    • Article

    Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials

    By: Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Joshua Schwartzstein and Heidi L. Williams
    This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials. We develop a simple model of similarity-based extrapolation that predicts that evidence is more relevant for decision-making by physicians and patients when it... View Details
    Keywords: Representation; Racial Disparity; Health Testing and Trials; Race; Equality and Inequality; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    Alsan, Marcella, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Heidi L. Williams. "Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials." Quarterly Journal of Economics 139, no. 1 (February 2024): 575–635.
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Local Shocks and Internal Migration: The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the U.S.

    By: Marius Faber, Andres Sarto and Marco Tabellini
    Do local labor markets adjust to economic shocks through migration? In this paper, we study this question by focusing on two of the most important shocks that hit U.S. manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese import competition and the introduction of industrial robots.... View Details
    Keywords: Migration; Employment; Information Technology; Trade; System Shocks; United States
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    Faber, Marius, Andres Sarto, and Marco Tabellini. "Local Shocks and Internal Migration: The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-071, December 2019. (Revised February 2023. Also appears in HBS Working Knowledge. Longer NBER working paper version here. Revise and resubmit at the European Economic Review.)
    • 01 Jun 2011
    • News

    America the Unequal

    whether different forms of wealth redistribution — for example, raising the minimum wage, or longer-term interventions like reducing disparities in education — are less likely to evoke heated opposition and perhaps increase advocacy for... View Details
    Keywords: income disparity; class mobility
    • June 2021
    • Supplement

    Linda Oubré at Whittier College (C)

    By: Debora L. Spar and Haley P. Brown
    The case follows President Linda Oubré (HBS MBA Class of 1984) as she seeks to move Whittier College towards a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus.
    In 2020, the student body of Whittier, a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles County, California,... View Details
    Keywords: Women And Leadership; Racial Disparity; Higher Education; Education; Diversity; Race; Change Management; Gender; Los Angeles; California; United States
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    Spar, Debora L., and Haley P. Brown. "Linda Oubré at Whittier College (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-061, June 2021.
    • 22 Sep 2014
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    Why We Should Teach Entrepreneurship to Disadvantaged Students

    Keywords: entrepreneurship; Nonprofit; disadvantaged youth; income disparity
    • June 2021
    • Supplement

    Linda Oubré at Whittier College (B)

    By: Debora L. Spar and Haley P. Brown
    The case follows President Linda Oubré (HBS MBA Class of 1984) as she seeks to move Whittier College towards a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus.
    In 2020, the student body of Whittier, a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles County, California,... View Details
    Keywords: Women And Leadership; Racial Disparity; Higher Education; Education; Diversity; Race; Change Management; Gender; Los Angeles; California; United States
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    Spar, Debora L., and Haley P. Brown. "Linda Oubré at Whittier College (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-058, June 2021.
    • September–October 2021
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    Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb

    By: Shunyuan Zhang, Nitin Mehta, Param Singh and Kannan Srinivasan
    We study the effect of Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm on the racial disparity in the daily revenue earned by Airbnb hosts. Our empirical strategy exploits Airbnb’s introduction of the algorithm and its voluntary adoption by hosts as a quasi-natural experiment. Among... View Details
    Keywords: Smart Pricing; Pricing Algorithm; Machine Bias; Discrimination; Racial Disparity; Social Inequality; Airbnb Revenue; Revenue; Race; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Price; Mathematical Methods; Accommodations Industry
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    Zhang, Shunyuan, Nitin Mehta, Param Singh, and Kannan Srinivasan. "Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb." Marketing Science 40, no. 5 (September–October 2021): 813–820.
    • 2014
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    Nudging Physicians to Pursue Careers in Underserved Areas: A Case for Behavioral Economics

    By: Joseph Lopez, Mona Singh, Nava Ashraf and Joel Weissman
    Currently, more than 60 million Americans live in "Health Professional Shortage Areas." Unless policymakers can encourage more physicians to practice in medically under-resourced areas, an increased number of uninsured individuals newly able to obtain health insurance... View Details
    Keywords: Access To Care; Health Economics; Health Reform; Minority Health; Disparities; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    Lopez, Joseph, Mona Singh, Nava Ashraf, and Joel Weissman. "Nudging Physicians to Pursue Careers in Underserved Areas: A Case for Behavioral Economics." (Working Paper, February 2014. Under review.)
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Distributional Consequences of Monetary Policy Across Races: Evidence from the U.S. Credit Register

    By: Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia and Camelia Minoiu
    We examine the consequences of monetary policy on racial disparities, focusing on the role of bank lending to firms through collateral and selection channels. Leveraging comprehensive loan-level data from the U.S. credit register (Y-14Q) of the Federal Reserve, we show... View Details
    Keywords: Monetary Policy Transmission; Inequity; Credit Registry; Wealth; Collateral Channel; Selection; Racial Disparity; Racial Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Banks and Banking; Credit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry; United States
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    Alfaro, Laura, Ester Faia, and Camelia Minoiu. "Distributional Consequences of Monetary Policy Across Races: Evidence from the U.S. Credit Register." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-068, April 2022.
    • 08 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

    the people they refer are probably also going to be White.” The racial gap is worse in conservative areas The study provides valuable insights into the racial disparities that can make the difference between whether employees love or hate... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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