Insights / Podcast episode•Mar 21, 2023
Social Media Algorithms: How You’re Curating a Biased News Feed
Tess Vigeland, Sendhil Mullainathan
Social media behaviors, moving at an ever faster pace, may not reflect what users really...
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Technology & Innovation

Insights / Video
Watch: Innovation — From Idea to Reality: A Conversation Richard Sandor and Steven Kaplan
In an insightful and engaging conversation presented by the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute,...
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Technology & Innovation
Insights / Research Brief•Jan 22, 2021
Simple and Credible Value-Added Estimation Using Centralized School Assignment • Measuring Racial Discrimination in Algorithms
With the aggregation of more and more data, and with improvements in machine learning methods, firms and policymakers have developed algorithms to help them make decisions. For example, banks and credit card companies use algorithms to make decisions relating to a consumer’s creditworthiness. The idea is not only to make accurate assessments but to also remove any prejudice or other qualitative errors that could occur when people make such high-stakes decisions.
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K-12 Education, Technology & Innovation
Insights / Research Brief•Jan 22, 2021
Comparing Conventional and Machine-Learning Approaches to Risk Assessment in Domestic Abuse Cases
The numbers are staggering. Domestic abuse affects nearly one-third of all women world-wide who are in a relationship, including one-fourth of US women and one-third of English women who suffer physical or sexual abuse at the hands of an intimate partner.
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Technology & Innovation

Insights / Podcast episode•Jan 13, 2021
The Big Tech Threat?
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Eric Posner, Chad Syverson
The expanding market influence of tech companies has sparked new fear of an old economic...
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Technology & Innovation

Insights / Podcast episode•Nov 05, 2020
Deep Dive Series – The Future of Money?
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Eric Budish, Brian Platz, Yuval Rooz, Luigi Zingales
If use of cash continues to wane, will cryptocurrency be the new dollar bill? Is...
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Technology & Innovation
Insights / Research Brief•Feb 03, 2020
A Global View of Creative Destruction
Trade policy has recently been in the news, with the focus on the costs to firms from higher prices due to trade tariffs. However, the focus on the effect of tariffs on prices misses perhaps the most important benefit from international trade: the transmission of ideas.
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Industrial Organization, Technology & Innovation
Insights / Research Brief•Dec 16, 2019
Synergizing Ventures
In the early days of Microsoft, Bill Gates and Paul Allen did not need investors’...
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Employment & Wages, Industrial Organization, Technology & Innovation