| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27802 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27802 |
| On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making | |
| Ivan A. Canay; Magne Mogstad; Jack Mountjoy | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-09-14 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The decisions of judges, lenders, journal editors, and other gatekeepers often lead to significant disparities across affected groups. An important question is whether, and to what extent, these group-level disparities are driven by relevant differences in underlying individual characteristics, or by biased decision makers. Becker (1957, 1993) proposed an outcome test of bias based on differences in post-decision outcomes across groups, inspiring a large and growing empirical literature. We carefully examine what researchers can learn about bias in decision making from such outcome tests. We show that models of decision making underpinning outcome tests can be usefully recast as Roy models, since potential outcomes enter directly into the decision maker’s choice equation. Different members of the Roy model family, however, are distinguished by the tightness of the link between potential outcomes and decisions, and we show that these distinctions have important implications for defining bias, deriving logically valid outcome tests of such bias, and identifying the marginal outcomes that the test requires. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Discrimination ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27802 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585474 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ivan A. Canay,Magne Mogstad,Jack Mountjoy. On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making. 2020. |
| 条目包含的文件 | ||||||
| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w27802.pdf（643KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
