46 citations · 50 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
8 papers
Fair ranking: a critical review, challenges, and future directions
Gourab K Patro, Lorenzo Porcaro, Laura Mitchell +3
Ranking, recommendation, and retrieval systems are widely used in online platforms and other societal systems, including e-commerce, media-streaming, admissions, gig platforms, and…
Test-optional Policies: Overcoming Strategic Behavior and Informational Gaps
Zhi Liu, Nikhil Garg
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 500 US-based colleges and universities went "test-optional" for admissions and promised that they would not penalize applicants for not subm…
Who is in Your Top Three? Optimizing Learning in Elections with Many Candidates
Nikhil Garg, Lodewijk Gelauff, Sukolsak Sakshuwong +1
Elections and opinion polls often have many candidates, with the aim to either rank the candidates or identify a small set of winners according to voters' preferences. In practice,…
Driver Surge Pricing
Nikhil Garg, Hamid Nazerzadeh
Ride-hailing marketplaces like Uber and Lyft use dynamic pricing, often called surge, to balance the supply of available drivers with the demand for rides. We study driver-side pay…
Analyzing Polarization in Social Media: Method and Application to Tweets on 21 Mass Shootings
Dorottya Demszky, Nikhil Garg, Rob Voigt +4
We provide an NLP framework to uncover four linguistic dimensions of political polarization in social media: topic choice, framing, affect and illocutionary force. We quantify thes…
Designing Informative Rating Systems: Evidence from an Online Labor Market
Nikhil Garg, Ramesh Johari
Platforms critically rely on rating systems to learn the quality of market participants. In practice, however, these ratings are often highly inflated, and therefore not very infor…