Outstanding Paper Awards at the 5th Virtual Discrimination and Diversity workshop

The MinE Committee of EEA has funded one of two Outstanding Paper Awards at the 5th Virtual Discrimination and Diversity workshop.

Congratulations to the two winners:

The first award goes to Marie-Pascale Grimon, SOFI, Stockholm University for her paper Better Together? A Field Experiment on Human-Algorithm Interaction in Child Protection. This paper addresses a highly important and policy-relevant issue that impacts thousands of families each year. It delves into the dynamics of algorithm-human interactions—an increasingly significant and fascinating area within the field of AI. The paper offers a thorough evaluation of the randomized controlled trial, clearly identifying what was effective and why. In doing so, it makes a substantial contribution to the literature, advancing our understanding beyond the traditional equity-efficiency trade-off.

The second award goes to Amen Jalal, London School of Economics for her paper Screening Women Out? Experimenting with Salary Disclosure in Job Ads. This paper contributes meaningfully to the growing body of literature on policy efforts worldwide to reduce the gender wage gap, including measures such as salary history bans and mandatory disclosure of within-firm gender disparities. It shows that such a salary disclosure intervention can promote both gender equity and firm efficiency, by encouraging top-performing female candidates – previously deterred from applying – to enter the applicant pool (although at a cost of increasing screening costs due to higher application numbers).

The award recipients are determined by Loukas Balafoutas (Exeter) and Dario Sansone (Chair of EEA’s MinE Committee), with nominations made by session chairs.

For full info on the Discrimination and Diversity workshop, please go here.