{"id":3308,"date":"2021-05-18T09:51:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:51:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:51:28","slug":"readings-on-statistical-discrimination-and-inefficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=3308","title":{"rendered":"Readings on statistical discrimination and inefficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tweet by Sarah Jacobson prompted a few discussion threads on current perspectives on statistical discrimination and efficiency\/inefficiency. Here is the original tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I used to think economists used the idea of statistical discrimination to understand how discrimination could be defeated &#8211; by info vs some other means. But it seems like instead some think of it as a justification &#8211; a reason discrimination is OK.<br \/>\nSometimes economists bum me out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarah Jacobson (@SarahJacobsonEc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahJacobsonEc\/status\/1394452904690569216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I have collected references to some of the papers that discussants mentioned as providing more refined takes on the original Arrow and Aigner-Cain analyses:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Lundberg, Shelly J., and Richard Startz. &#8220;Private discrimination and social intervention in competitive labor market.&#8221; The American Economic Review 73.3 (1983): 340-347.<br \/>\n&#8211; Schwab, Stewart. &#8220;Is statistical discrimination efficient?.&#8221; The American Economic Review 76.1 (1986): 228-234.<br \/>\n&#8211; Coate, Stephen, and Glenn C. Loury. &#8220;Will affirmative-action policies eliminate negative stereotypes?.&#8221; The American Economic Review (1993): 1220-1240.<br \/>\n&#8211; Bohren, J. Aislinn, et al. Inaccurate statistical discrimination. No. w25935. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019.<br \/>\n&#8211; Lang, Kevin, and Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer. &#8220;Race discrimination: An economic perspective.&#8221; Journal of Economic Perspectives 34.2 (2020): 68-89.<br \/>\n&#8211; Komiyama, Junpei, and Shunya Noda. &#8220;On Statistical Discrimination as a Failure of Social Learning: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach.&#8221; arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.01079 (2020).<br \/>\n&#8211; Fosgerau, Mogens and Sethi, Rajiv and Weibull, Jorgen W., Costly Screening and Categorical Inequality (April 21, 2021). Available at SSRN: https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3533952 or http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2139\/ssrn.3533952<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tweet by Sarah Jacobson prompted a few discussion threads on current perspectives on statistical discrimination and efficiency\/inefficiency. Here is the original tweet: I used to think economists used the idea of statistical discrimination to understand how discrimination could be defeated &#8211; by info vs some other means. But it seems like instead some think &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=3308\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Readings on statistical discrimination and inefficiency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}