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Behavior seminar
Du 05/09/2024 de 11:00 à 12:00
R2-21
LEIBBRANDT Andreas (Monash University, Australia)
Does Artificial Intelligence Help or Hurt Gender Diversity? Evidence from Two Field Experiments on Recruitment in Tech
écrit avec Mallory Avery (Monash University) & Joseph Vecci (University of Gothenburg)
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recruitment is rapidly increasing and drastically changing how people apply to jobs and how applications are reviewed. In this paper, we use two field experiments to study how AI recruitment tools can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated technology sector, both overall and separately for labor supply and demand. We find that the use of AI in recruitment changes the gender distribution of potential hires, in some cases more than doubling the fraction of top applicants that are women. This change is generated by better outcomes for women in both supply and demand. On the supply side, we observe that the use of AI reduces the gender gap in application completion rates. Complementary survey evidence suggests that anticipated bias is a driver of increased female application completion when assessed by AI instead of human evaluators. On the demand side, we find that providing evaluators with applicants’ AI scores closes the gender gap in assessments that otherwise disadvantage female applicants. Finally, we show that the AI tool would have to be substantially biased against women to result in a lower level of gender diversity than found without AI.
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 03/09/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
R2-21
ARIELL Resheff (PSE)
Legislation, Regulation and Litigation: Demand for U.S. Legal Services in Historical Perspective
In the twenty years between 1970 and 1990 the employment share of legal services more than
doubled, reaching 1.15% of the private sector—in stark contrast to stability during 1850–1970
and in 1990–2015. During the same period the relative wage of legal services almost doubled,
driven by commensurate increases in lawyers’ wages and of law firm partners’ income. We
argue that that this demand shift was driven by important legislation and regulation events,
starting in the mid-1960s and lasting throughout the 1980s. Using historical data, we observe a
tight correlation between the employment and compensation of lawyers and the scope of, and
uncertainty created by, federal regulations and legislation. This is supported by cross-state and
micro-level analysis. Other factors, e.g., changes in lawyers’ quality, patenting, firm density
and technology are not important determinants of the demand shift. A back of the envelope
calculation implies that 42% of income to lawyers and partners are in excess of what these
payments would be if relative income remained at 1970 levels. This represents an excess cost of
$104 billion dollars in 2015 alone.