Machine Learning & the Gender Wage Gap
A case study of using machine learning to study the Gender Wage Gap.
Date: postponed. Date to be confirmed
In our fourth seminar in our lunchtime seminar series on research methods in equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI) research, Dr Rachel Forshaw will be sharing her use of machine learning in studying the Gender Wage Gap (GWG).
A fuller abstract is still to come, however you can find linked here the article she and co-authors wrote “Using Machine Learning Methods to Estimate the Gender Wage Gap”.
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Co-production in the context of Neurodiversity (2 October 13:00 BST)
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Presenter:
Dr Rachel Forshaw is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Edinburgh Business School.
Her research interests are in applied labour economics, particularly in the areas of gender, inequality, and health. She uses microeconometric techniques, but has a background in computational economics, so likes to use her coding skills to look at measurement problems in new ways. Rachel is a proponent of interdisciplinary research, and mixed method studies. This is because, ultimately, research should affect policy and while the plural of anecdote is not data, data + data-supported anecdotes are a powerful tool of persuasion.
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