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Fair Allocation through Selective Information Acquisition
William Cai, Johann Gaebler, Nikhil Garg +1
Public and private institutions must often allocate scare resources under uncertainty. Banks, for example, extend credit to loan applicants based in part on their estimated likelih…
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…