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A Short-term Intervention for Long-term Fairness in the Labor Market
Lily Hu, Yiling Chen
The persistence of racial inequality in the U.S. labor market against a general backdrop of formal equality of opportunity is a troubling phenomenon that has significant ramificati…
Optimal Data Acquisition for Statistical Estimation
Yiling Chen, Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier +2
We consider a data analyst's problem of purchasing data from strategic agents to compute an unbiased estimate of a statistic of interest. Agents incur private costs to reveal their…
Active Information Acquisition for Linear Optimization
Shuran Zheng, Bo Waggoner, Yang Liu +1
We consider partially-specified optimization problems where the goal is to actively, but efficiently, acquire missing information about the problem in order to solve it. An algorit…
Fairness at Equilibrium in the Labor Market
Lily Hu, Yiling Chen
Recent literature on computational notions of fairness has been broadly divided into two distinct camps, supporting interventions that address either individual-based or group-base…
Informational Substitutes
Yiling Chen, Bo Waggoner
We propose definitions of substitutes and complements for pieces of information ("signals") in the context of a decision or optimization problem, with game-theoretic and algorithmi…