Bo Cowgill

Columbia University - Columbia Business School

Assistant Professor

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New York, NY 10027

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Algorithmic Fairness and Economics

Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2020
Bo Cowgill and Catherine E. Tucker
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Management Science (MS)
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economics, algorithms, bias, fairness

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Biased Programmers? Or Biased Data? A Field Experiment in Operationalizing AI Ethics

In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (pp. 679-681)., Columbia Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2020
Bo Cowgill, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Sam Deng, Daniel Hsu, Nakul Verma and Augustin Chaintreau
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Columbia University - School of Engineering, Columbia University - School of Engineering, Columbia University - School of Engineering and Columbia University
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Television Advertising and Online Search

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Feb 2020
Mingyu Joo, Kenneth C. Wilbur, Bo Cowgill and Yi Zhu
University of California, Riverside - School of Business, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management
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Advertising, Information Search, Media, Search Engine Marketing, Television

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The Facts About Referrals: Toward an Understanding of Employee Referral Networks

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The Facts About Referrals: Toward an Understanding of Employee Referral Networks

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2017
Stephen V. Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman and Michael Gene Housman
University of Minnesota, Morris - Division of Social Science, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Health Care Systems Department
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Referrals, productivity, worker selection, innovation, patents, cognitive ability, non-cognitive ability, job testing

The Value of Hiring Through Referrals

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7382
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 18 May 2013 Last Revised: 04 May 2023
Stephen V. Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman and Michael Gene Housman
University of Minnesota, Morris - Division of Social Science, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Health Care Systems Department
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worker selection, innovation, patents, cognitive ability, non-cognitive ability, job testing, call centers, high-tech, productivity, referrals, software, trucking, truck accidents

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Bias and Productivity in Humans and Machines

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Bias and Productivity in Humans and Machines

Columbia Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 May 2020
Bo Cowgill
Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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Bias and Productivity in Humans and Machines

Upjohn Institute Working Paper 19-309, 2019, Columbia Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 Aug 2019
Bo Cowgill
Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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machine learning, training data, decision algorithm, decision-making, human biases

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Stable Matching on the Job? Theory and Evidence on Internal Talent Markets

Columbia Business School Working Paper
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 19 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2023
Bo Cowgill, Jonathan Davis, B. Pablo Montagnes and Patryk Perkowski
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Emory University - Department of Political Science and Yeshiva University
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internal labor markets, assortative matching, market design

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Algorithmic Social Engineering

AEA Papers & Proceedings, 110 (2020 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 18 Feb 2020
Bo Cowgill and Megan T. Stevenson
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and University of Virginia School of Law
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Delegation in Hiring: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 898
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 21 May 2020 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2023
Bo Cowgill and Patryk Perkowski
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Yeshiva University
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Hiring, intermediaries, discrimination, field experiments

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Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit

Number of pages: 98 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2023
Amanda Y. Agan, Bo Cowgill and Laura Gee
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Tufts University
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J71, M51, C93

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Legalizing Entrepreneurship

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 25 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2023
Dany Bahar, Bo Cowgill and Jorge Guzman
Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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immigration, entrepreneurship, Colombia, legalization

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Political Power and Market Power

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Political Power and Market Power

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP17178
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 16 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2023
Bo Cowgill, Andrea Prat and Tommaso M. Valletti
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Imperial College Business School
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Political influence, lobbying, mergers, industrial concentration.

Political Power and Market Power

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP17178
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 27 May 2022
Bo Cowgill, Andrea Prat and Tommaso M. Valletti
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Imperial College Business School
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The Managerial Effects of Algorithmic Fairness Activism

AEA Papers & Proceedings, 110 (2020), Forthcoming, Columbia Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Feb 2020
Bo Cowgill, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua and Sandra Matz
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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Do Workers Comply with Salary History Bans? A Survey on Voluntary Disclosure, Adverse Selection, and Unraveling

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 25 May 2021
Amanda Y. Agan, Bo Cowgill and Laura Gee
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Tufts University
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Competition and Specificity in Market Design: Evidence from Geotargeted Advertising

NET Institute Working Paper No. 18-09, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 101
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 04 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2020
Bo Cowgill and Cosmina Dorobantu
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and The Alan Turing Institute
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The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer their Income

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 4104743
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 11 May 2022 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2023
Bo Cowgill, Amanda Y. Agan and Laura Gee
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Rutgers University, Department of Economics and Tufts University
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Does Online Trade Live Up to the Promise of a Borderless World? Evidence from the EU Digital Single Market

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Jan 2014
Bo Cowgill, Cosmina L. Dorobantu and Bertin Martens
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Reed College - Department of Economics and Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC)
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online trade, EU single market, e-commerce, home bias, online shopping

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Refugee Entrepreneurship: The Case of Venezuelans in Colombia

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 20 Jan 2023
Dany Bahar, Bo Cowgill and Jorge Guzman
Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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entrepreneurship, venezuela, immigration

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Firm Strategy and Internal Talent Markets

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Apr 2023
Bo Cowgill, Jonathan Davis, B. Pablo Montagnes and Patryk Perkowski
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Emory University - Department of Political Science and Yeshiva University
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Principals Matching Agents: Applications to Organizations and Auctions

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Apr 2023
Bo Cowgill, Jonathan Davis and B. Pablo Montagnes
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and Emory University - Department of Political Science
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matching, productivity, team formation, organizational design, market design, mechanism design

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Stock Options and Incentives: Employee-Level Evidence from Google

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2022
Bo Cowgill and Eric Zitzewitz
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Dartmouth College
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Employee stock options, pay for performance

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Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit

NBER Working Paper No. w29460
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 08 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2023
Amanda Agan, Bo Cowgill and Laura Gee
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Tufts University
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Legalizing Entrepreneurship

NBER Working Paper No. w30624
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 07 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Dany Bahar, Bo Cowgill and Jorge Guzman
Brown University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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