Bo Cowgill
Assistant Professor
Columbia Business School
3022 Broadway, Uris Hall
New York, NY 10027
Working Papers
Matchmaking Principals: Theory and Evidence from Internal Labor Markets
With Jonathan Davis, Pablo Montagnes and Patryk Perkowski.
Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit
NBER WP #29460. Summaries: NBER Digest, WEF, and VoxEU. With Amanda Agan and Laura Gee. Related: Salary History Bans and Unravelling.
Political Power and Market Power
Summary: VoxEU. With Andrea Prat and Tommaso Valletti.
Bias and Productivity in Humans and Algorithms
Discussion: New York Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review.
Stock Compensation and Employee Attention
With Eric Zitzewitz.
Delegation in Hiring: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study
With Patryk Perkowski.
Older Working Papers
The Impact of Algorithms on Judicial Discretion: Evidence from Regression Discontinuities
Solo-authored.
Algorithmic Bias: A Counterfactual Perspective
With Catherine Tucker
Algorithmic Fairness and Economics
Earlier version containing additional lit review. With Catherine Tucker.
Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows
With Eric Zitzewitz.
Competition and Productivity in Employee Promotion Contests
Solo-authored.
Incentive Effects of Equity Compensation
With Eric Zitzewitz.
"The US-Canada Border Effect: Evidence from Online Commerce"
Previously titled "The US/Canada Border Effect in Online Commerce" Based on earlier draft, "Gravity and Borders in Online Commerce".
With Cosmina Dorobantu.
"Worldwide Gravity in Online Commerce"
Based on earlier draft, Gravity and Borders in Online Commerce
With Cosmina Dorobantu.
Competition and Specificity in Market Design: Evidence from Geotargeted Advertising
With Cosmina Dorobantu.