arXiv research

Charities can increase donations by targeting optimal recipients.

Volunteer labor can temporarily yield lower benefits to charities than its costs. In such instances, organizations may wish to defer volunteer donations to a later date. Exploiting a discontinuity in blood donations' eligibility criteria, we show that deferring donors reduces their future volunteerism. In our setting, …

Standard economic theory, starting with Adam Smith's invisible hand, holds that those who trade for their own selfish motives of maximizing their private preferences may contribute more to the public wealth than those who claim altruistic motives. Under restrictive conditions, this has been shown to result from a self-…

Study uses contextual bandits to optimize charity exposure in donation solicitation.

Study analyzes Disney stock market performance using machine learning.

This research finds three meta-indicators for university rankings.

The main goal of the present paper is two-fold. First we extend the theory of toroidal embeddings introduced by Kempf, Knudsen, Mumford and Saint-Donat to the class of toroidal varieties with stratifications (which is the main body of the paper). Second we give a proof of the following weak factorization theorem as an …

We prove in this article that given a linearly concave domain $D$ in the projective space $\Bbb{CP}^{n}$, a 1-dimensional comlex analytic set $V$ in $D$, and a meromorphic 1-form $φ$ on $V$, $V$ is a subset of an algebraic variety of $\Bbb{CP}^{n}$ and $φ$ is the restriction to $V$ of an algebraic 1-form on $\Bbb{CP}^{…

Classification tasks are common across many fields and applications where the decision maker's action is limited by resource constraints. In direct marketing only a subset of customers is contacted; scarce human resources limit the number of interviews to the most promising job candidates; limited donated organs are pr…

To answer questions about racial inequality and fairness, we often need a way to infer race and ethnicity from names. One way to infer race and ethnicity from names is by relying on the Census Bureau's list of popular last names. The list, however, suffers from at least three limitations: 1. it only contains last names…

Social Media has influenced the way people socially connect, interact and opinionize. The growth in technology has enhanced communication and dissemination of information. Unfortunately,many terror groups like jihadist communities have started consolidating a virtual community online for various purposes such as recrui…

I-AID categorizes disaster tweets into useful information types.

We study the incentives of banks in a financial network, where the network consists of debt contracts and credit default swaps (CDSs) between banks. One of the most important questions in such a system is the problem of deciding which of the banks are in default, and how much of their liabilities these banks can pay. W…

Tax dynamics affects wealth distribution in a linearly growing socio-economic model.